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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.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American women--New Orleans--New Orleans--History--20th century.
African Americans--New Orleans--New Orleans--History--20th century.
Women--New Orleans--New Orleans--History--20th century.
African American women--New Orleans--New Orleans--Social conditions--20th century.
African Americans--New Orleans--New Orleans--Social conditions--20th century.
Women--New Orleans--New Orleans--Social conditions--20th century.
Racism--New Orleans--New Orleans--History--20th century.
New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions--20th century.
New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
History.
1900 - 1999
African American women.
African American women--Social conditions.
African Americans.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Race relations.
Racism.
Social conditions.
Women.
Women--Social conditions.
Louisiana--New Orleans.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Gender and American culture

ISBN:

1469622807 (pbk : alk. paper)
9781469622804 (pbk : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)893452563

LCCN:

2015003751

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)