@article{772805,
      recid = {772805},
      author = {Simmons, LaKisha Michelle,},
      title = {Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in  segregated New Orleans /},
      pages = {xiii, 266 pages :},
      abstract = {"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},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/772805},
}