Crescent City girls, the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans, LaKisha Michelle Simmons
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Crescent City girls, the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans, LaKisha Michelle Simmons
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index
Illustrations
illustrationsmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Crescent City girls
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
LaKisha Michelle Simmons
Series statement
Gender and American culture
Sub title
the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans
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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- African Americans + Segregation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations
- Racism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Content
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject10
- African Americans + Segregation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations
- Racism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Content2
- Author1