South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration Binding:Paperback Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby

ISBN: 1338783572

known as Big Ammachi--will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian

she decides to fight for her independence despite the ironclad prenup that threatens her career

South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration Binding:Paperback Barbara RansbyIn South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chatelain describes how Chicago's black social scientists, urban reformers, journalists and activists formulated a vulnerable image of urban black girlhood that needed protecting. She argues that the construction and meaning of black girlhood shifted in response