somebody / anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know
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In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jul 2019
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- Research Article
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- 32–47 (16 total)
Toward Black Girl Futures
Rememorying in Black Girlhood Studies
Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, Sara Jackson, Brianna Harper, Jennifer Merandisse, Brittney Smith, Kim Hussey, and Eliana Lopez
. We are a collective of Black women who together discuss memories from our childhoods to understand how they shape who we are today as Black women, community-engaged scholars, students, educators, youth workers, and former Black girls. Many of us first
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2022
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- Research Article
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- 67–83 (17 total)
Black Girls Swim
Race, Gender, and Embodied Aquatic Histories
Samantha White
In the winter of 1941, a Harlem audience gathered to watch Black girls swim at the West 137th Street Branch of the YWCA. The branch, which served Black girls in New York City, boasted an extensive Physical Education department that included, among
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- 63–79 (17 total)
Courtney Cook
Book Review Nazera Sadiq Wright. 2016. Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century . Urbana, University of Illinois Press. Black girls have a history of resilience. Nazera Sadiq Wright, in Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century (2016
Sarah E. Whitney
, received widespread acclaim. To date, Dias’s project has resulted in the worldwide distribution of over 9,000 volumes of children’s literature. 1 Marley Dias’s activism exemplifies Black Girl Magic, a mediated discourse affirming African-American girls
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- 108–125 (18 total)
Katie Scott Newhouse
alongside my own analysis and interpretations, I sought to honor the great privilege she bestowed on me by sharing parts of her lived experience as a Black girl at the Voices ATDP. From this standpoint, I illustrate the ways in which she interacted with and
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- 71–88 (18 total)
Janet Seow
been criticized by a number of social and cultural theorists on the grounds that they promote racial stereotypes. Black dolls, in particular, have been criticized for their sexualization of black girls. Some ethnic dolls, including the Bratz doll line
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jul 2019
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- 48–64 (17 total)
Eluned Jones
Gaunt, Kyra D. 2006. The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes From Double-Dutch to Hip hop. New York: NY University Press.
“There's Something About HER”
Realities of Black Girlhood in a Settler State
Kandice A. Sumner
benefits. Much more time, attention, and passion should be dedicated to research on the price that Black students pay for white settler education in Black students’ attempt to bypass the inequity in the schools closest to home. I, as a Black girl, as early
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Black Girl Refusals and Reimaginings: Theorizing Liberatory Black Girlhoods Across the Diaspora
The Black Girlhood Studies Collection
Desirée de Jesus
powerfully by showing us ways of looking at, and seeing, Black girls that effectively “broaden the aperture into girlhood studies” (279). These interdisciplinary approaches offer insightful interventions that illuminate the prismatic complexities of Black