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Product Description: For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In I’ve Got to Make My Livin’, Cynthia Blair explores African American women’s sex work in Chicago during the decades of some of the city’s most explosive growth, expanding not just our view of prostitution, but also of black women’s labor, the Great Migration, black and white reform movements, and the emergence of modern sexuality...read more
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9780226055985 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 15, 2010, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race.

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Product Description: Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn--and how it was crossed--in twentieth-century American cities. Kevin Mumford chronicles the role of vice districts in New York and Chicago as crucibles for the shaping of racial categories and racial inequalities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780231104920 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $83.50 | About this edition: Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn--and how it was crossed--in twentieth-century American cities.

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9780231104937 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn--and how it was crossed--in twentieth-century American cities.

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