1939: (Working-Class Girls in the Urban Center — Comhaire-Sylvain Finding That Working-Class Young Girls in the Urban Center Having Work School and Responsib…

1939: (Working-Class Girls in the Urban Center — Comhaire-Sylvain Finding That Working-Class Young Girls in the Urban Center Having Work School and Responsibilities at Home Had Little Time for Leisure Activities, When They Did Take Time to Play They Often Did the Same Things That Middle-Class and Elite Girls Did: Talk with Friends Dance and Play Games — She Asserting “Rich or Poor Our Young Girls of Port-au-Prince Are Highly Social”): Comhaire-Sylvain found that working-class young girls in the urban center, having work, school, and responsibilities at home, had little time for leisure activities. When they did take time to play, they often did the same things that middle-class and elite girls did: talk with friends, dance, and play games. She asserted that rich or poor, the young girls of Port-au-Prince were highly social — the observation cut against the class narratives that would separate elite and working-class girlhood into fundamentally different categories, revealing instead a shared sociality that persisted despite radically unequal conditions.