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Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad

Thaggert, Miriam

Paperback

Series: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

Black American HistoryTrainsGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0252086597
ISBN13: 9780252086595
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Jun 28 2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to ride Jim Crow on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell; Black middle-class women who sued to ride in first class ladies' cars; Black women railroad food vendors; and Black maids on Pullman trains. Thaggert argues that the railroad represented a technological advancement that was entwined with African American attempts to secure social progress. Black women's experiences on or near the railroad illustrate how American technological progress has often meant their ejection or displacement; thus, it is the Black woman who most fully measures the success of American freedom and privilege, or progress, through her travel experiences.

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