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“African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.”
― LeShawn Harris

“It was hard standing on corners swallowing your pride. But it meant independence. Yes, independence”
― LeShawn Harris

“adopting and performing masculinity, playing on conventional ideas about femininity and protection, employing violence, and creating mutually beneficial relationships and alliances with a host of urbanites”
― LeShawn Harris

“But for some women, individual desire for economic stability, material consumption, and personal pleasures compelled them to dismiss the advice of loved and concerned ones and ignore the countless stories about fallen urban women”
― LeShawn Harris