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Womanish Black Girls
Women Resisting the Contradictions of Silence and Voice
- 200 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Womanish Black Girls
Women Resisting the Contradictions of Silence and Voice
About this book
A 2020 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner
A 2019 AESA Critics' Choice Award Winner
Womanish Black Girls/Women Resisting Contradictions of Silence and Voice is a collection of essays written by varied black women who fill spaces within the academy, public schools, civic organizations, and religious institutions. These writings are critically reflective and illuminate autobiographical storied-lives. A major theme is the notion of womanish black girls/women resisting the familial and communal expectations of being seen, rather than heard. Consequently, these memories and lived stories name contradictions between "being told what to do or say" and "knowing and deciding for herself." Additional themes include womanism and feminism, male patriarchy, violence, cultural norms, positionality, spirituality, representation, survival, and schooling. While the aforementioned can revive painful images and feelings, the essays offer hope, joy, redemption, and the re-imagining of new ways of being in individual and communal spaces. An expectation is that middle school black girls, high school black girls, college/university black girls, and community black women will view this work as seedlings for understanding resistance, claiming voice, and healing.
Perfect for courses in: Adolescent Development, American Studies, Black Studies, Educational Anthropology, Latino Studies, Multicultural Education, Social Foundations of Education, Sociology and Women's Studies.
A 2019 AESA Critics' Choice Award Winner
Womanish Black Girls/Women Resisting Contradictions of Silence and Voice is a collection of essays written by varied black women who fill spaces within the academy, public schools, civic organizations, and religious institutions. These writings are critically reflective and illuminate autobiographical storied-lives. A major theme is the notion of womanish black girls/women resisting the familial and communal expectations of being seen, rather than heard. Consequently, these memories and lived stories name contradictions between "being told what to do or say" and "knowing and deciding for herself." Additional themes include womanism and feminism, male patriarchy, violence, cultural norms, positionality, spirituality, representation, survival, and schooling. While the aforementioned can revive painful images and feelings, the essays offer hope, joy, redemption, and the re-imagining of new ways of being in individual and communal spaces. An expectation is that middle school black girls, high school black girls, college/university black girls, and community black women will view this work as seedlings for understanding resistance, claiming voice, and healing.
Perfect for courses in: Adolescent Development, American Studies, Black Studies, Educational Anthropology, Latino Studies, Multicultural Education, Social Foundations of Education, Sociology and Women's Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword: The Audacious Speech of the Captive Maternal Mute
- Introduction: Three Black Women Remembering Womanish Girls
- Part I: Silencing Voice and (In)Visibility as Black Girls/Women
- Part II: Sexuality, Slut-Shaming, and Speaking a Black Girl’s/Woman’s Mind
- Part III: Womanism, Knowing, and Being Smart Black Girls/Women
- Contributors
- Index