03589nam 2200769 450 991081625780332120240219173928.0979-88-908426-0-21-4696-2282-3(CKB)3710000000446041(EBL)3571149(SSID)ssj0001576461(PQKBManifestationID)16245818(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001576461(PQKBWorkID)13183507(PQKB)10799458(StDuBDS)EDZ0001284169(OCoLC)913829150(MdBmJHUP)muse46532(Au-PeEL)EBL3571149(CaPaEBR)ebr11077514(CaONFJC)MIL930940(MiAaPQ)EBC3571149(EXLCZ)99371000000044604120150723h20152015 uy 0engtxtccrCrescent City girls the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans /LaKisha Michelle SimmonsChapel Hill, [North Carolina] :The University of North Carolina Press,2015.©20151 online resource (283 p.)Gender and American CultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-2280-7 1-4696-2281-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Gender & American culture.African American womenLouisianaNew OrleansHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansLouisianaNew OrleansHistory20th centuryWomenLouisianaNew OrleansHistory20th centuryAfrican American womenLouisianaNew OrleansSocial conditions20th centuryAfrican AmericansLouisianaNew OrleansSocial conditions20th centuryWomenLouisianaNew OrleansSocial conditions20th centuryRacismLouisianaNew OrleansHistory20th centuryNew Orleans (La.)Social conditions20th centuryNew Orleans (La.)Race relationsAfrican American womenHistoryAfrican AmericansHistoryWomenHistoryAfrican American womenSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsWomenSocial conditionsRacismHistory305.48/896073076335Simmons LaKisha Michelle1687921MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816257803321Crescent City girls4061766UNINA$15.7506/22/2018Hist