Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans

Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simmons, LaKisha Michelle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina, [2015]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
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
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
Louisiana > New Orleans
Electronic books.
History
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Table of 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.

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