Emily K. Abel is Professor Emerita and Research Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and author of, among other works, Sick and Tired: A History of Fatigue and Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles. Margaret K. Nelson is Professor of Sociology Emerita at Middlebury College and author of, among other works, Like Family: Narratives of Fictive Kinship and The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America.

This excellent book explores the intersections between race, class, and gender, as well as how additional variables such as location and time impact these dynamics. I appreciate the focus on the principal subject, Mable Jones, throughout this commendable book—even as the authors explore the context of her life and work and their own relationship with Mable Jones." - Brian J. Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University, coeditor of A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia"Understanding Mable Jones’s working conditions in the North further elucidates the realities of Black migration. We understand more clearly the circumstances under which Black domestics maintained familial ties to the South and are made to realize that migration does not break bonds but can strengthen them. Consequently, Limited Choices can be read as a cogent synthesis of modern African American history." - From the foreword by Dr. Andrea Douglas, Executive Director, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

Emily K. Abel is Professor Emerita and Research Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and author of, among other works, Sick and Tired: A History of Fatigue and Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles. Margaret K. Nelson is Professor of Sociology Emerita at Middlebury College and author of, among other works, Like Family: Narratives of Fictive Kinship and The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America.

This excellent book explores the intersections between race, class, and gender, as well as how additional variables such as location and time impact these dynamics. I appreciate the focus on the principal subject, Mable Jones, throughout this commendable book—even as the authors explore the context of her life and work and their own relationship with Mable Jones." - Brian J. Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University, coeditor of A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia"Understanding Mable Jones’s working conditions in the North further elucidates the realities of Black migration. We understand more clearly the circumstances under which Black domestics maintained familial ties to the South and are made to realize that migration does not break bonds but can strengthen them. Consequently, Limited Choices can be read as a cogent synthesis of modern African American history." - From the foreword by Dr. Andrea Douglas, Executive Director, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

Emily K. Abel is Professor Emerita and Research Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and author of, among other works, Sick and Tired: A History of Fatigue and Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles. Margaret K. Nelson is Professor of Sociology Emerita at Middlebury College and author of, among other works, Like Family: Narratives of Fictive Kinship and The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America.

This excellent book explores the intersections between race, class, and gender, as well as how additional variables such as location and time impact these dynamics. I appreciate the focus on the principal subject, Mable Jones, throughout this commendable book—even as the authors explore the context of her life and work and their own relationship with Mable Jones." - Brian J. Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University, coeditor of A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia"Understanding Mable Jones’s working conditions in the North further elucidates the realities of Black migration. We understand more clearly the circumstances under which Black domestics maintained familial ties to the South and are made to realize that migration does not break bonds but can strengthen them. Consequently, Limited Choices can be read as a cogent synthesis of modern African American history." - From the foreword by Dr. Andrea Douglas, Executive Director, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center