Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Scarlett Redux
1 "Holding Excitement in Their Hands"
2 Spirited Youth or Fiends Incarnate?
3 "Just as Much a Menace": Race and Sex Delinquency
4 "A Head Full of Diamonds"
5 "Living in Hopes": An Economy of Desire
6 Sex, Science, and Eugenic Sterilization
7 The World War II Pickup Girl and Wartime Passions
8 School Days Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, and Romance
9 Would Jesus Dance? The Dangerous Rhythms of Rock 'n' Roll
10 The Sexual Paradox of High School Desegregation
Conclusion: Sex, Memory, and the Segregated Past
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index