I've got to make my livin': black women's sex work in turn-of-the-century Chicago

"A class we have barely mentioned"

"The sources of courtesanship": African American women's wage work, the informal economy and the search for independence

Working the prostitution economy, 1870-1900

Race and the spatial boundaries of respectability

Race and the reconstruction of the urban sex economy, 1900-1915

Leisure culture and the commercialization of black women's sex work, 1900-1920

Rage and rescue: African American anti-vice reform strategies

"This way of livin' sure is hard."