Julia Kirk Blackwelder
Biographic Data
| ID | 273594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Kirk Blackwelder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia Kirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackwelder |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKWELDER J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rebecca M. Herzig. Plucked
Plucked: A History of Hair Removal, a whimsical undertaking by the author’s admission, supplements the robust historical literature on beauty practices and the beauty industry in the U.S. The book focuses on body hair removal practices as well as attitudes and beliefs about hair as an element of sexuality or beauty, hairy masculinity on the one hand and hairless femininity on the other. Rebecca M. Herzig’s monograph consists of a chronological se…
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters
Journal Article Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America Get access Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America. By Victoria W. Wolcott. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 310 pp. $34.95.) Julia Kirk Blackwelder Julia Kirk Blackwelder Ballston Spa, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Styling Jim Crow
Styling Jim focuses on the beauty education industry in racially segregated communities from World War I through the 1960s. In this study of two black beauty companies of the Jim Crow era, Julia Kirk Blackwelder looks at the industry as a locus of black entrepreneurial effort and an opportunity for young women to obtain training and income that promised social mobility within the African American community. Blackwelder demonstrates that commerce,…
On the Border
This collection of eleven essays examines the environmental history of San Antonio, drawing on an interdisciplinary array of authors and insights to highlight the evolving relationship between the city’s residents and the South Texas landscape and showing how the human community and the natural environment have shaped each other. The border of the title refers to San Antonio’s location at the edge of the Great Plains on the north and the coastal …
Now Hiring
Journal Article Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900–1995. By Julia Kirk Blackwelder. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xvi, 308 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-776-8. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-89096-798-9.) Get access Claudia Clark Claudia Clark Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, M…
A Century of Women
Journal Article A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century. By Sheila Rowbotham. (New York: Penguin, 1997. xiv, 764 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-670-87420-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-14-023282-6.) Get access Julia Kirk Blackwelder Julia Kirk Blackwelder Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Now Hiring
American Work
Now Hiring
Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta
Living In, Living Out
The Undersecretary General
As United States geared up for war in fall of 1941, Ralph Bunche went to work in Office of Coordinator of Information, assignment that initiated a lifelong career in public service, in both U.S. government and United Nations. Brian Urquhart's laudatory biography of Bunche focuses on public Bunche, especially man who shaped policy and practice in United Nations from 1945 until his death in 1971. Although never serving as secretary general of UN, B…
Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA
Mill Family
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 325 subjects of interest and opportunities for future research as it flits from man to man (most with photographs) and mill to mill in the textile industry’s grand campaign to improve the lot of all southern ers. It treats unions, the civil rights movement, OSHA, and the J. P. Stevens boycott harshly; and it does not believe in the stretch-out and in cotton manufacture as the cause of byssinosis. References to…
Mill Family
From Working Daughters to Working Mothers
Working-Class Women and Urban Culture
Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls
Journal Article Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty in the South. By Victoria Byerly. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1986. x + 223 pp. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $9.95.) Get access Julia Kirk Blackwelder Julia Kirk Blackwelder University of North Carolina, Charlotte Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Page 1100, https://doi.o…
Sisterhood Denied
Women of the Depression
Women of the Depression
Even before the unemployment, low wages, substandard housing, and poor health plagued many women in what was then one of America's poorest cities--San Antonio. Divided by tradition, prejudice, or law into three distinct communities of Mexican Americans, Anglos, and African Americans, San Antonio women faced hardships based on their personal economic circumstances as well as their identification with a particular racial or ethnic group. Women of t…
Women of the Depression
Journal Article Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929–1939. By Julia Kirk Blackwelder. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984. xix + 279 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, sources, and index. $22.50.) Get access Susan Ware Susan Ware Radcliffe College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 4, March 1985, Page 895, …
Women of the Depression
Women of the Depression
Journal Article Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929–1939 Get access Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929–1939. By Blackwelder Julia Kirk. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984. xviii + 279 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50.) D'Ann Campbell D'Ann Campbell Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Women of the Depression
Changing Criminal Patterns in Buenos Aires, 1890 to 1914
Despite the recent development of a broad literature on urbanization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, the topics of public order and crime have eluded careful study.1The historiography of Argentine urbanization evokes questions about social control, but we know little more about changing patterns of crime and policing than did contemporary observers. Immigration, labor organization, class struggle, and political violence have a…
A Century of Women
Journal Article A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century. By Sheila Rowbotham. (New York: Penguin, 1997. xiv, 764 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-670-87420-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-14-023282-6.) Get access Julia Kirk Blackwelder Julia Kirk Blackwelder Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Women in the Work Force
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters
Journal Article Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America Get access Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America. By Victoria W. Wolcott. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 310 pp. $34.95.) Julia Kirk Blackwelder Julia Kirk Blackwelder Ballston Spa, New York [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Estadística criminal y acción policial en buenos aires, 1887-1914
Women in the Work Force
Southern White Fundamentalists and the Civil Rights Movement
Changing Criminal Patterns in Buenos Aires, 1890 to 1914
Despite the recent development of a broad literature on urbanization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, the topics of public order and crime have eluded careful study.1The historiography of Argentine urbanization evokes questions about social control, but we know little more about changing patterns of crime and policing than did contemporary observers. Immigration, labor organization, class struggle, and political violence have a…
Out to Work
First published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of "women's work" into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, chang…
Crime, Policing, and the Dangerous Classes
The Politics of San Antonio
Estadística criminal y acción policial en buenos aires, 1887-1914
Women of the Depression
Women of the Depression
Even before the unemployment, low wages, substandard housing, and poor health plagued many women in what was then one of America's poorest cities--San Antonio. Divided by tradition, prejudice, or law into three distinct communities of Mexican Americans, Anglos, and African Americans, San Antonio women faced hardships based on their personal economic circumstances as well as their identification with a particular racial or ethnic group. Women of t…
Women of the Depression
Journal Article Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929–1939. By Julia Kirk Blackwelder. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984. xix + 279 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, sources, and index. $22.50.) Get access Susan Ware Susan Ware Radcliffe College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 4, March 1985, Page 895, …
Women of the Depression
Women of the Depression
Journal Article Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929–1939 Get access Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929–1939. By Blackwelder Julia Kirk. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984. xviii + 279 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50.) D'Ann Campbell D'Ann Campbell Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Women of the Depression
Sisterhood Denied
Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls
Journal Article Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty in the South. By Victoria Byerly. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1986. x + 223 pp. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $9.95.) Get access Julia Kirk Blackwelder Julia Kirk Blackwelder University of North Carolina, Charlotte Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Page 1100, https://doi.o…
Working-Class Women and Urban Culture
From Working Daughters to Working Mothers
Mill Family
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 325 subjects of interest and opportunities for future research as it flits from man to man (most with photographs) and mill to mill in the textile industry’s grand campaign to improve the lot of all southern ers. It treats unions, the civil rights movement, OSHA, and the J. P. Stevens boycott harshly; and it does not believe in the stretch-out and in cotton manufacture as the cause of byssinosis. References to…
Mill Family
Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA
The Undersecretary General
As United States geared up for war in fall of 1941, Ralph Bunche went to work in Office of Coordinator of Information, assignment that initiated a lifelong career in public service, in both U.S. government and United Nations. Brian Urquhart's laudatory biography of Bunche focuses on public Bunche, especially man who shaped policy and practice in United Nations from 1945 until his death in 1971. Although never serving as secretary general of UN, B…
Living In, Living Out
Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta
Now Hiring
American Work
Political science (26 works) · Sociology (22 works) · History (19 works) · Law (15 works) · History (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works)