Title Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans / LaKisha Michelle Simmons.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina, [2015]
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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Series	Gender and American culture
	Gender & American culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) 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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	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.
	African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
	African American women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799467
	African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
	African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
	Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
	Louisiana -- New Orleans. (OCoLC)fst01204311
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies.
	HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Simmons, LaKisha Michelle, author. Crescent City girls 9781469622804 (DLC) 2015003751 (OCoLC)893452563
ISBN	9781469622828 (electronic bk.)
	1469622823 (electronic bk.)

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