| Description |
xiii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Gender and American culture |
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Gender & American culture.
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| 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. |
| Summary |
"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 neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives. Simmons argues that these children faced the difficult task of adhering to middle-class expectations of purity and respectability even as they encountered the daily realities of Jim Crow violence, which included interracial sexual aggression, street harassment, and presumptions of black girls' impurity. Simmons makes use of oral histories, the black and white press, social workers' reports, police reports, girls' fiction writing, and photography to tell the stories of individual girls: some from poor, working-class families; some from middle-class, "respectable" families; and some caught in the Jim Crow judicial system. These voices come together to create a group biography of ordinary girls living in an extraordinary time, girls who did not intend to make history but whose stories transform our understanding of both segregation and childhood." -- Publisher's description |
| Subject |
African American teenage girls -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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Teenage girls -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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African American teenage girls -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Teenage girls -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Racism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.
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African American teenage girls. (OCoLC)fst00799399
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African American teenage girls -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst00799403
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst00799698
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Teenage girls. (OCoLC)fst01145412
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Teenage girls -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01145452
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Louisiana -- New Orleans.
(OCoLC)fst01204311
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781469622804 (pbk. ;) (alk. paper) |
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1469622807 (pbk. ;) (alk. paper) |
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9781469622811 (ebook) |
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