South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration Binding:Paperback Hylee and Eilam investigate the

Hylee and Eilam investigate the truth about time

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South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration Binding:Paperback Hylee and Eilam investigate theIn 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