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Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans - Gender and American Culture LaKisha Michelle Simmons
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Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans - Gender and American Culture
LaKisha Michelle Simmons
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.
Commendation Quotes: This book is like a quilt as it pieces together many fragments to tell a rich and fascinating story. I see it as part of a new scholarship that looks at historical questions from a different angle, making a significant contribution.--Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of DelawareCommendation Quotes: "Crescent City Girls" is a provocative, insightful, and important perspective on the complexities of black female childhood in the Jim Crow South. Simmons not only fills an important gap in the scholarship regarding how we might understand the interiority of black girls' lives; her work also raises new questions and insights about the different ways that black communities navigated the South's racialized and gendered violence.--Cheryl D. Hicks, author of "Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1930-1935"Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; 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.
Contributor Bio: Simmons, Lakisha Michelle LaKisha Michelle Simmons is assistant professor of global gender studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 20, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469622804 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Genre | Sex & Gender > Feminine |
| Pages | 312 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 19 mm · 417 g |
| Language | English |
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