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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.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F379.N59 N447 2015    Available  ---
Description xiii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.
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.
Subject African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
African American women.
Louisiana -- New Orleans.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans.
Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Women.
African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Racism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
Racism.
New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.
African American women -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Race relations.
Women -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Racism.
ISBN 1469622807 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9781469622804 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9781469622811 (ebook)