Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life

2020 submission
Written By Michelle Samplin-Salgado
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Paula Austin


NYU Press

Paula C. Austin's complex narrative of the everyday lives of Black young people in racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted 1930s Washington, DC draws on previously unstudied archival material to present Black young people reckoning with boundaries imposed on them in a Jim Crow city that was also the American emblem of equality.

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Michelle Samplin-Salgado
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