Abstract
dc:description.abstract<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 master’s program. Everyone talked about her being in a better place but what was the place and what is heaven for a Black girl? I ask myself if heaven for a Black girl is a place where Black girls do not die exhausted, exceptional, or extraordinary? Is it a place where we can be mediocre for a day? Or a place where baby hairs and kinky edges do not cause uproar or debates? Most importantly, is heaven for a Black girl a place where the intersection of race and gender do not deny us access to survival? This is a work a fiction exploring the questions above regarding survival in waking life and the afterlife.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Creative Writing
- Year dc:date.available
- 2023
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Jennings, Montez
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Morgan Read-Davidson
- Jaime Campbell
- James Blaylock
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/creative_writing_theses/93
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.chapman.edu:creative_writing_theses-1095