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Author Simmons, LaKisha Michelle, author.

Title Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans / LaKisha Michelle Simmons
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Contents Introduction: growing up within the double bind, 1930-1954 -- Suppose they don't want us here? Mental mapping of Jim Crow New Orleans -- A street where girls were meddled: insults and street harassment -- Defending her honor: interracial sexual violence, silences, and respectability -- The geography of niceness: morality, anxiety, and Black girlhood -- Relationships unbecoming of a girl her age: sexual delinquency and the house of the good shepherd -- Make-believe land: pleasure in Black girl's lives -- Epilogue: Jim Crow girls, Hurricane Katrina women
Summary What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighbourhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index
Notes English
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Subject African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Racism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African American women
African American women -- Social conditions
African Americans
African Americans -- Social conditions
Race relations
Racism
Social conditions
Women
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations
Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469622828
1469622823
9781469622811
1469622815