This is a very very good social history of Black women in New York and Philadelphia in the early decades of the 20th century. Drawing from sources like diary entries, court and police records, newspaper articles, and other sources that are then flipped on their face to tell the everyday histories of women who would and have been lost to history. So rather than let the sources be definitive, there’s a kind of inverting them. This is told in a narrative history way so it’s […]