Full Description
Strong Black Girls lays bare the harm Black women and girls are expected to overcome in order to receive an education in America. It captures the routinely muffled voices and experiences of these students through storytelling, essays, letters, and poetry. The authors make clear that the strength of Black women and girls should not merely be defined as the ability to survive racism, abuse, and violence. Readers will also see resistance and resilience emerge through the central themes that shape these reflective, coming-of-age narratives. Each chapter is punctuated by discussion questions that extend the conversation around the everyday realities of navigating K-12 schools, such as sexuality, intergenerational influence, self-love, anger, leadership, aesthetic trauma (hair and body image), erasure, rejection, and unfiltered Black girlhood. Strong Black Girls is essential reading for everyone tasked with teaching, mentoring, programming, and policymaking for Black females in all public institutions.Book Features:
A spotlight on the invisible barriers impacting Black girls' educational trajectories.
A survey of the intersectional notions of strength and Black femininity within the context of K-12 schooling.
Narrative therapy through unpacking system stories of oppression and triumph.
Insights for building skills and tools to make substantial and lasting change in schools.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)
Foreword v Adrienne Dixson
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1 Danielle Apugo, Lynnette Mawhinney, and Afiya Mbilishaka
PART I: Re(voicing) of Silence in Schools
1. Out of the Box: Countering the Silence of Black Girls With Memory-Work 9 Asia Thomas
2. The Struggle for Black Girl Voice: A Story of Three Generations 20 Autumn A. Griffin
3. Colors Outside the Lines: Recollections and Reflections on Black Girlhood 32 Nefetaria Yates
4. Telling and Re-Telling: Black Girls' Stories Together 52 Brittney Miles and Ololade Akinboyede
PART II: Black Feminine Bodies in School
5. Curls, Coils, and Codes: An Examination of Black Girls Hair as a Form of Expression and Resistance 61 Cierra Kaler-Jones
6. 79
Taylor M. Tucker
PART III: Embracing and Complicating #blackgirlmagic
7. The Trouble With Black Girl Magic for Black Girls 99 Valerie N. Adams-Bass and Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards
8.Black Girl Magic Is a Glorious Gift 118 Helena Donato-Sapp
Conclusion. An Offering: Toward Building the Foundation of Liberatory Education 122 Danielle Apugo, Lynnette Mawhinney, and Afiya Mbilishaka
About the Contributors 124
Index 128
