Crescent City Girls : The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans /

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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 neighbourhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simmons, LaKisha Michelle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Racism.
Race relations.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women.
Racisme > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Noires americaines > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noires americaines > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Racism > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
Women > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American women > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
African American women > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
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 neighbourhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2015.
Physical Description:1 online resource (282 pages): illustrations
Audience:Specialized.
ISBN:9781469622828

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