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‘Following The Line Of Least Resistance’: African American Women In Domestic Work, 1899–1940, Taylor Simsovic
‘Following The Line Of Least Resistance’: African American Women In Domestic Work, 1899–1940, Taylor Simsovic
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History
This paper examines the challenges faced by African American women employed in domestic service between 1899 and 1940, with a focus on how race, class, and gender intersected to shape their experiences. Specifically, the study investigates how these women continued to perform reproductive labor as they migrated from the South to Northern states during the Great Migration. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, the analysis argues that Black women's persistent employment in undervalued labor within white American homes was driven by the mutually constitutive systems of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. These systems channeled Black women into …
Where The Fruit Grows, We’Ll Start Over: Rethinking The Great Migration’S Limitless Impact, Luna Flores-Ramirez
Where The Fruit Grows, We’Ll Start Over: Rethinking The Great Migration’S Limitless Impact, Luna Flores-Ramirez
History - Master of Arts in Teaching
I. Synthesis Essay……………………………….2
II. Primary Documents and Headnotes……….20
III. Textbook Critique…………………………….33
IV. New Textbook Entry…………………………36
V. Bibliography…………………………………...19