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Crescent City girls the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans
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Title
Crescent City girls [electronic resource] : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans / LaKisha Michelle Simmons.
ISBN
1469622823
9781469622828
9781469622804 (pbk : alk. paper)
9781469622811
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm.)
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 American Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 US Regional Studies, South.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 18, 2015
Series
Gender and American culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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