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Simmons LaKisha Michelle |
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Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans / / LaKisha Michelle Simmons |
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Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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979-88-908426-0-2 |
1-4696-2282-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (283 p.) |
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Collana |
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Gender and American Culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
New Orleans (La.) Social conditions 20th century |
New Orleans (La.) Race relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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