Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans / LaKisha Michelle Simmons.
2015
F379.N59 N447 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Crescent City girls : the lives of young Black women in segregated New Orleans / LaKisha Michelle Simmons.
ISBN
9781469622804 (paperback)
1469622807 (paperback)
9781469622811 (electronic book)
1469622807 (paperback)
9781469622811 (electronic book)
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina, 2015.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
F379.N59 N447 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.48/896073076335
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 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
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.
Series
Gender & American culture.
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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.
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.