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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Black girl"”.
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Carefree Black Girl: Trope or Treasure?
… experimental study on the idea of the “Carefree Black Girl,” a term coined in 2017 to define a way of life for Black women to emulate, focused on self-care and self-love. I write about its popularity and meaning, with parallels to my own life and mental health in order to define if this term is …
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American Education and the Black Girl
… <p>American educators often view the Black girl as aggressive, defiant, and too challenging to educate, leading to disparities in disciplinary responses between the Black girl and her peers. This study aimed to examine the experiences of the Black girl in the K-12 system and to …
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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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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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Black girl magic: the (re)imagining of Hermione Granger: an analysis and autoethnography
… was White. However, with the emergence of a Black Hermione Granger within fanfiction, fanart, and other fanwork, as well as the casting Afro-British actress Noma Dumezweni in the stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" other iterations of the character have come to the forefront. In a …
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The High Maintenance Black Girl: Black Female College Students’ Experiences with Intraracial Stereotypes
… documented interracial stereotypes faced by Black individuals, this study delved into the lesser-explored realm of stereotypes emanating from within the Black community itself. This dissertation explored the experiences of Black female college students in predominantly white educational …
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A letter to a black girl: reflections on being born black and female
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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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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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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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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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Reframing mathematics identity socialization: a case study of a (dis)abled Black girl in a middle school mathematics classroom
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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“Here I come with all my Black girl magic”: Black women and girls’ experiences in predominantly white independent private schools
Within independent private schools specifically, Black women and girls endure feelings of rejection, isolation, and inadequacy all whilst trying to maintain their academic or career success and a positive self-perception. Through the lenses of Black Feminist Thought and Critical Race Theory, this …
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What does it mean to be a Black girl? An exploration of Black girls’ meaning-making of self, community and society in Melt Magazine
… is a Chicago-based teen magazine designed by Black women and 30 teen girls. Named by one of the girls in the after-school program, Melt Magazine is a popular culture text co-developed by myself, Sheri K. Lewis, and other Black women and girls. The magazine was developed on the premise that …
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Do Black Girls Go to Heaven?
<p><em>Do Black Girls Go to Heaven? </em>I started asking myself this question when I was six years old. Five days before my seventh birthday, my pregnant aunt was killed by an impatient driver. That moment began shaping the rest of my life in ways I would not realize until my second attempt at 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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Black Girls Matter: The Impact of Historical Representation on Contemporary Education
… of misogynoir and negative stereotypes about Black<br />girls and women can be found throughout the literature and popular <br />culture of the United States. These stereotypes inform the lived <br />experience of Black girls and women, and in particular interfere with <br />African American …
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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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