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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina
[2015]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Gender and American culture. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39265869*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
