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Daughters of Ruth : enterprising black women in insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s
The dissertation explores the imbricated nature of race, gender, and class in the field of insurance within the political economy of the New South. It considers how enterprising black women navigated tensions between New South rhetoric and Jim Crow reality as well as sexism and racism within the …