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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simmons, LaKisha Michelle (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina, 2015.
Series:Gender and 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.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2015 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2015 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2015 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2015 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
Format: Electronic eBook
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.