Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Simmons, LaKisha Michelle
Format:	Book
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. 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 History.

Table of 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.