South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration Binding:Paperback EAN: 9781665916721

EAN: 9781665916721

Barbara Ransby

and decolonization

she decides to fight for her independence despite the ironclad prenup that threatens her career

ISBN: 1338783572

South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration Binding:Paperback EAN: 9781665916721In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chatelain describes how Chicago's black social scientists, urban reformers, journalists and activists formulated a vulnerable image of urban black girlhood that needed protecting. She argues that the construction and meaning of black girlhood shifted in response