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Trade Review"In an exemplary application of intersectional analysis to Black women’s labor history, Branch convincingly demonstrates that the 100- year legacy of racial and gender exclusion explains Black women’s poverty today." -- Bonnie Thornton Dill * author of Emerging Intersections: Race, Class and Gender in Theory Policy and Practice *
“This is an important story to tell and Branch’s
Opportunity Denied makes a significant contribution to the study of black women’s work.” -- Margaret L. Andersen * professor of sociology, University of Delaware *
"This is a wonderful, well-written and carefully argued book. Branch does an excellent job of demonstrating how historical inequalities can take hundreds of years to remedy."
* Labour/Le Travail *
"Branch has done an excellent job analyzing a very complex and loaded topic. This book will surely required reading for scholars interested
in intersectionality and labor-market inequalities."
* American Journal of Sociology *
"Branch’s thesis is a powerful one. What does opportunity and economic progress really mean for black women as mothers, sisters, partners, and caretakers? For Branch, and the majority of black women, it indicates an occupational structure that maintains and protects the status quo and offers little promise of change."
* American Studies Journal *
"In an exemplary application of intersectional analysis to Black women’s labor history, Branch convincingly demonstrates that the 100- year legacy of racial and gender exclusion explains Black women’s poverty today." -- Bonnie Thornton Dill * author of Emerging Intersections: Race, Class and Gender in Theory Policy and Practice *
“This is an important story to tell and Branch’s
Opportunity Denied makes a significant contribution to the study of black women’s work.” -- Margaret L. Andersen * professor of sociology, University of Delaware *
"This is a wonderful, well-written and carefully argued book. Branch does an excellent job of demonstrating how historical inequalities can take hundreds of years to remedy."
* Labour/Le Travail *
"Branch has done an excellent job analyzing a very complex and loaded topic. This book will surely required reading for scholars interested
in intersectionality and labor-market inequalities."
* American Journal of Sociology *
"Branch’s thesis is a powerful one. What does opportunity and economic progress really mean for black women as mothers, sisters, partners, and caretakers? For Branch, and the majority of black women, it indicates an occupational structure that maintains and protects the status quo and offers little promise of change."
* American Studies Journal *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Hierarchies of Preference at Work: The Need for an Intersectional Approach
2. As Good as Any Man: Black Women in Farm Labor
3. Excellent Servants: Domestic Service as Black Women's Work
4. Existing on the Industrial Fringe: Black Women in the Factory
5. Your Blues Ain't Nothing Like Mine: Race and Gender as Keys to Occupational Opportunity
6. The Illusion of Progress: Black Women's Work in the Post-Civil Rights Era
