LaKisha Michelle Simmons is assistant professor of global gender studies at the University at Buffalo, SUN, USA.
An excellent contribution to the study of children's geographies.
The author explores the racial, sexual, violent, affective,
classed, gendered and imagined geographies of New Orleans from the
vantage point of black girls. As such it will be of interest not
only to historians, but also to scholars interested in past and
present spatializations of sexual and racial violence.--Children's
Geographies
A significant new contribution to southern history, African
American history, and gender studies that belongs in every academic
library and should receive serious consideration by public
libraries.--Choice
Addresses many of the themes scholars and others consider when they
think of New Orleans. Entertainment districts, Mardi Gras balls and
parades, the power of Catholicism, the importance of schools, the
complexity of definitions of race and the power of racial
segregation are all crucial to Crescent City Girls.--Reading the
South
Breaks meaningful new ground and serves as a model for future
studies in African American and gender history.--Journal of
American History
Gives its readers the opportunity to explore New Orleans as black
girls may have experienced it. . . . Demonstrate[s] the ways that
consideration of black girls' experience provides richer and more
nuanced historical narratives. . . . Provide[s] important context
and foundation for the conceptions of black girlhood that we have
inherited.--Public Books
Highly recommended, as it intelligently includes voices entirely
lost in most academic literature and . . . will be vital to those
studying gender, youth, and urban histories.--American Historical
Review
Readers are introduced to the interior lives of black girls in a
city shaped by complex color lines, racial identities, and demands
on what girlhood was supposed to mean.--Journal of the History of
Childhood and Youth
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