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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]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
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.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Simmons, LaKisha Michelle. Crescent City girls 9781469622804 (DLC) 2015003751 (OCoLC)893452563
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