Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans / / LaKisha Michelle Simmons
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| Autore: |
Simmons LaKisha Michelle
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| Titolo: |
Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans / / LaKisha Michelle Simmons
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.48/896073076335 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | New Orleans (La.) Social conditions 20th century |
| New Orleans (La.) Race relations | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Crescent City girls |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-2282-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460381803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Gender & American culture.