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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Gender & American culture.
Main Author: Simmons, LaKisha Michelle (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina, [2015]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
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.
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)
African American women.
African American women > Social conditions.
African Americans.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Racism.
Social conditions.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
History.
Genre:
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (JSTOR)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Format: Electronic eBook
Description
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 neighbourhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives.
Call Number:F379.N59 N447 2015eb
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.
ISBN:9781469622828
1469622823
9781469622811
1469622815
Source of Description:
Print version record.