Description: It documents the slow progress of change for many African Americans in the South, explores the still little-known experiences of Black household workers in the suburban North, and reconstructs the textured lives that Mable Jones and the many women like her nevertheless carved out in a system that was and continues to be stacked against them.
Review Quotes:
Honestly and thoughtfully conceived, Limited Choices celebrates the life of the authors' deeply-influential caregiver, Mabel Jones. Through comprehensive social historical research, in-depth interviews and powerful personal examples, this book illuminates the need for economic justice if we are ever going to achieve a racially just society, one in which everyone has choices about how and where they live their lives.
--Jean Halley, Graduate Center, CUNY