
The population, writes the author, was young and in many cases disproportionately female, with liberating follow-on consequences. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, 2007, etc.) examines the many ways in which (mostly) young black women tried to live their lives within the confines of new urban enclaves such as Harlem and West Philadelphia, from which Italian and Jewish immigrants had moved on and into which newcomers from the South were streaming. A provocative study of urban African-American women a century and more ago.Ĭharacterizing her work as an “account of the wayward,” literary scholar Hartman (English/Columbia Univ.
