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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Black Girlhood"”.
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Organizing sensibilities of a radical Black girlhood
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Cruising, Crossings & Care: Sounds of Collective Black Girlhood
… that celebrates the complex lived experiences of Black girls with Black girls. In this project, I argue sounds of collective Black girlhood, created in SOLHOT, reveal the importance of collective music-making practices in Black girlhood studies and girl programming. Cruising, Crossings and care, …
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Transgressngroove: an exploration of black girlhood, the body, and education
Blackgirls have recently begun to receive focused attention in the discipline of education.Usually, we are compared to our White female or Black male counterparts and/or located within frameworks designed without our bodies and realities considered. Failure to recognize the simultaneity of race and …
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Brown Sugar and Spice: Exploring Black Girlhood at Elite, White Schools
<p>Black girls who attend elite, predominantly white schools face a host of unique challenges and tasks in achieving a positive, resolved gendered-racial identity; they must learn to reconcile external and potentially negative definitions of Black girlhood while making their own meaning of being a …
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"""Jazzy Belle Retell/tale"": toward a framework of sonic black girlhood"
… created by Jessica Robinson, a member of the black girl band, We Levitate. This thesis explores the making of the retell/tale of a popular song by the hip hop group, OutKast as a practice of black girlhood music making. Moreover, this thesis will investigate the use of this music making as a …
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SOLHOT: black girlhood celebration of love, literacy, hip-hop and motherhood
… a concept I call “love practices” within a Black-girl-centered space entitled “Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths” (SOLHOT). When exploring the utility of love as practice among Black girls, in SOLHOT, at a local middle school in Champaign, Illinois, I ask the following: what is the …
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Black girlhood celebration: The political courage of Black girls and women in everyday experiences
… education, hip-hop feminism, and literature on Black girlhood, this thesis shows how Black girls in Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT), a community of girls and women in Illinois, make sense of the images they receive through hip-hop. Specifically, I explore the ways in which the girls, …
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Black girl gaze: A visual (re)membering of black girlhood as an act of resistance
Despite the academic potential or achievement of Black girls in American schools, they are still thought to be loud, deviant, hypersexual, violent and needing to be saved (Brown, 2009; 2013). The influence of these stereotypes about Black girls coupled with historical inequities in the education of …
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Present day prophets: defining Black girlhood spirituality in saving our lives hear our truths (SOLHOT)
Present Day Prophets: Defining Black Girlhood Spirituality in Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT) and Beyond is based on nine years of participant observation in the collective, Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT). SOLHOT is a praxis that centers and celebrates Black girlhood through …
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Black Girl Black Girl Holla and Let Em’ Hear You: An Autoethnographic Exploration of My Experiences From Black Girlhood to Black Womanhood
… to adulthood, as seen through the eyes of a Black girl growing up to become a Black woman. Specifically, this study included an examination of 10 critical incidents with a combination of the past 7 years of my life that explain the negative and positive interactions that shaped my experiences …
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Piercing together a girlhood : (re)visiting memories of site using nostalgia as a catalyst for coping with atopia
… childhood. The subject of this enquiry is black girlhood; in particular, the relationships between black girls/women. Consequently a large part of 'piecing together a girlhood' involves engaging with what Quashie (2004) calls the 'girlfriend aesthetic'. Quashie's 'girlfriend aesthetic' …
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Their eyes were watching Zora: storientation, black girl magic, and Afrofuturistic implications for educators
This dissertation examines the intersection of Black girl identity and empowerment, drawing upon the concept of “Black Girl Magic” as it correlates with the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston. Through the four stances of Black Girl Magic—realization, resistance, restoration, and resilience—this …
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Nappy Roots, Split Ends, and New Growth: An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry into The Experiences of A Black Female Educator, No Lye
… shape who I was and how I became who I am as a Black woman educator. Family members, colleagues, community members, and students are the main characters in my stories. Building on the works of Collins (2000), Cross (1991), Gay (2000), He (2003), hooks (2000), and Tatum (1997), I use Black women …
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The whores left behind: Black sex workers’ college navigation & loneliness
… of K-12 extracurricular programs, designed for Black students’ enrichment and retention on college campuses may constrict, exclude, and disregard Black college sex workers and their identity. Through a Black whorehood theoretical framework, I investigate the discourses about Black girlhood, …
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Visualizing Girlhood: Visibility and the Power of the Black Girl Gaze to Understand Adolescent Girls’ Identity
<p>Black feminist scholars have highlighted the various ways Black women and girls are rendered invisible throughout many U.S. institutions. In the past few years, advocates have called attention to the ways gendered-racialized biases contribute to the punitive and dehumanizing treatment of Black …
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Picture This: Black Girl Multilingual Magic
<p>As #blackgirlmagic continues to defy all odds and perceptions in sports, society, and other social spaces, Black girls have been rendered invisible in the expanding landscape for dual language education. This dissertation study employed visual participatory methods to center the narratives of …
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From the Dumpster to the Bookshelf: Literature Written by Black Women in Brazil and the Quest for Mobility from 1960 to the Present
In this dissertation project, I argue that eight black women writers and a collective of black women writers produced literature that defy assigned spaces in Brazilian urban spaces starting in 1960 until the present. I particularly analyze Lélia Gonzalez and Beatriz Nascimentos’ academic essays; …
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A Framework for Black Girl Transitions Across Space and Time: Sint Maarten as a Case Study
… is a transitional period between Afro-Caribbean girlhood and woman/adulthood that is distinctly different from girlhood and from woman/adulthood. Herein I examine at what point in the lives of Afro-Caribbean girls, do they feel like they have entered adulthood. I also examine what kinds of media …
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Black women at the crossroads: Agency, interruptions, and oppression in education
… intersectionality, critical race feminism (CRF), Black feminist research and case studies to explore Black women’s oppression in education. This research study contributes to a growing body of work on Black females’ experiences of marginalization socially and educationally. The aim of this …
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The South (still) got something to say: an Atlanta-centric analysis of intergenerational pedagogies
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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