Making a Way Out of No Way by Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Shared memories from the hard-working southern women who relocated to northern cities and birthed the black middle class 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, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in the next generation, moved increasingly into the middle class. Over seven years, Lisa Krissoff Boehm gathered oral histories with women migrants and their children, two groups largely overlooked in the story of this event. She also utilized existing oral histories with migrants and southerners in leading archives. In extended excerpts from the oral histories, and in thoughtful scholarly analysis of the voices, this book offers a unique window into African American women's history. These rich oral histories reveal much that is surprising. Although the Jim Crow South presented persistent dangers, the women retained warm memories of southern childhoods. Notwithstanding the burgeoning war industry, most women found themselves left out of industrial work. The North offered its own institutionalized racism; the region was not the promised land. Additionally, these African American women juggled work and family long before such battles became a staple of mainstream discussion. In the face of challenges, the women who share their tales here crafted lives of great meaning from the limited options available, making a way out of no way. Lisa Krissoff Boehm is associate professor of urban studies and director of the Commonwealth Honors Program at Worcester State College. She is the author of Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago.-
Pieces of Freedom
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The Nine O'Clock Whistle
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The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
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African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas
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A Songbook of Slavery and Emancipation
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Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years
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Activism in the Name of God
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The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
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Perspectives on Percival Everett
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City Son
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Black Saturation
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Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos
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Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
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Can’t Stand Still
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Black and More Than Black
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Labor Pains
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Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
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Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt
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All Stories Are True
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The Postwar African American Novel
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In the Lion's Mouth
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Borders of Equality
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Fame to Infamy
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This Woman's Work
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Shadowing Ralph Ellison
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The African American Sonnet
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African American Haiku
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Rediscovering Frank Yerby
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Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
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Unexpected Places
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The Souls of White Folk
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The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello
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African American Preachers and Politics
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Raised Up Down Yonder
Lisa Krissoff Boehm is associate professor of urban studies and director of the Commonwealth Honors Program at Worcester State College. She is the author of Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781604732160 |
| ISBN 10 | 1604732164 |
| Title | Making a Way Out of No Way |
| Author | Lisa Krissoff Boehm |
| Series | Margaret Walker Alexander Series In African American Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University Press of Mississippi |
| Year published | 2009-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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