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xiii, 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The Global History of Black Girlhood boldly claims that Black girls are so important we should know their histories. Yet, how do we find the stories and materials we need to hear Black girls' voices and understand their lives? Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons edit a collection of writings that explores the many ways scholars, artists, and activists think and write about Black girls' pasts. The contributors engage in interdisciplinary conversations that consider what it means to be a girl; the meaning of Blackness when seen from the perspectives of girls in different times and places; and the ways Black girls have imagined themselves as part of a global African diaspora. Thought-provoking and original, The Global History of Black Girlhood opens up new possibilities for understanding Black girls in the past while offering useful tools for present-day Black girls eager to explore the histories of those who came before them"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: looking for Black girls in history / Corinne T. Field and Lakisha Michelle Simmons -- Interlude: Black girlhood as an analytical framework for doing history / Crystal Lynn Webster -- Part I. Girlhood. Introduction: what is the meaning of girl? / Corinne T. Field and Lakisha Michelle Simmons ; Sarah and Bess: an accounting of two black girl-friends / Tara A. Bynum ; Youth, girls, teenagers: on the intersections of race, gender, and age categories in twentieth-century South Africa / S.E. Duff ; Dubious victimhood: labor, race, age, and honor in Republican Cuban courts / Anasa Hicks ; "How to play in the right way": recreation and respectability at the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, 1915-1940 / Lindsey Elizabeth Jones ; Black girlhood remains ; Interlude: conscious of being seen / Nastassja E. Swift -- Part II. Black. Introduction: what is the meaning of "Black"? / Corinne T. Field and Lakisha Michelle Simmons ; Compromised independence: mixed-race girlhood in the Eighteenth-century French Atlantic / Jennifer L. Palmer ; Imagining freedom: Black girlhood in the Sanders-Venning family, 1815-1890 / Nazera Sadiq Wright ; "The girl who is to die at the rope's end": The 1892 execution of Milbry Brown and definitions of childhood in South Carolina courts / Cynthia R. Greenlee ; "Racial hauntings" and the complexities of Afro-German women's kin(d)ship / Vanessa D. Plumly ; Interlude: Wholly / Najya A. Williams -- Part III. Global. Introduction: what is global about black girlhood? / Corinne T. Fiend and Lakisha Michelle Simmons ; Haitian girls perform resistance in the wake of U.S. occupation: Jean F. Brierre's Famous Women in Haitian History and diasporic girlhood / Katherine Capshaw ; Moving beyond the "Dark Africa" narrative: Black girls, Black power, and the battle for a culturally relevant curriculum / Dara Walker ; A disciplined and sweet environment: girls' work and lives at the Government Reformatory in Jamaica, 1869-1937 / Shai Roper ; Roundtable: activists reflect on youth, justice, and girlhoods / Janae E. Bonsu, Beverly Palesa Ditsie, Phindile Kunene, Denise Oliver-Velez, and Claudrena N. Harold ; Conclusion: divine chaos dear homegirls / Ruth Nicole Brown -- Appendix. For Black girls: creating your own Black girlhood archive, #GlobalBlackGirlhood / Lakisha Michelle Simmons and Casidy Campbell. |
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Girls, Black -- History.
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Girls, Black -- Race identity.
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Girls, Black -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Field, Corinne T., 1965- editor.
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Simmons, LaKisha Michelle, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780252044625 hardcover |
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0252044622 hardcover |
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9780252086694 paperback : $24.95 |
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0252086694 paperback |
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