Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Rebecca Sharpless
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-12 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, w
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
Language: en
Pages: 462
Authors: Mary Rebecca Sharpless
Categories: Blacklands (Tex.)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher:

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Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Rebecca Sharpless
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-11 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs th
Las Tejanas
Language: en
Pages: 497
Authors: Teresa Palomo Acosta
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Winner, Texas Reference Source Award, Reference Round Table, Texas Library Association, 2003 T.R. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission, 2004 Since the
Making a Way out of No Way
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-06 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, t