Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls

Omobolade Delano-Oriaran, Marguerite W. Penick, Shemariah J. Arki, Ali Michael, Orinthia Swindell, Eddie Moore Jr.

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781544376998
• eBook ISBN: 9781544394411
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Multicultural Education

Be a part of the radical transformation to honor and respect Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls!

This book is a collective call to action for educational justice and fairness for all Black Girls – Beautiful, Brilliant. This edited volume focuses on transforming how Black Girls are understood, respected, and taught. Editors and authors intentionally present the harrowing experiences Black Girls endure and provide readers with an understanding of Black Girls' beauty, talents, and brilliance.

This book calls willing and knowledgeable educators to disrupt and transform their learning spaces by presenting:

• Detailed chapters rooted in scholarship, lived experiences, and practice
• Activities, recommendations, shorter personal narratives, and poetry honoring Black Girls
• Resources centering Black female protagonists
• Companion videos illustrating first-hand experiences of Black Girls and women
• Tools in authentically connecting with Black Girls so they can do more than survive – they can thrive.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Libation Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls
• Acknowledgments
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Introduction Black Girls are Beautiful and Brilliant
• Understanding
• Part I “Black people I love you, I love us, our lives matter.” —Alicia Garza, #BlackLivesMatter—Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi
• Chapter 1 Black “Girls” Are Different, Not Deficient
• Chapter 2 Black, Beautiful, and Brilliant It Takes a Village: Counter Safe Spaces for Black Super Girls
• Chapter 3 A Systemic Response to Creating a School Where Black Girls Can Thrive
• Part II “Nah” —Harriet Tubman
• Chapter 4 My Eloquent, Angry, Black Rage
• Chapter 5 The Right Kind of Black Girls
• Chapter 6 Colorism in the Classroom
• Part III “Spirit Murdering” —Bettina Love
• Chapter 7 Visible Black Girls...Powerful Beyond Measure
• Chapter 8 Why Does My Darkness Blind You? Abandoning Racist Teaching Practices
• Chapter 9 Finding My Armor of Self-Love
• Part IV “Reclaiming My Time” —Maxine Waters
• Chapter 10 Girls in the School-to-Prison Pipeline Implications of History, Policy, and Race
• Chapter 11 How Dare You be Brilliant The Precarious Situation for Black Girls
• Chapter 12 Girl Trafficking Misunderstood Understanding the Commercially Sexually Exploited African American Girl
• Chapter 13 Little Black Girls With Curves
• Part V “Your silence is a knee on my neck.” —Natasha Cloud
• Chapter 14 Whiteness Competency How Not to Be BBQ Becky
• Chapter 15 Can I Do This if I’m White? How White Educators Can Be the Teachers Black Girl Students Deserve
• Chapter 16 Not Knowing and Not Controlling Learning Alongside Black Girl Students
• Chapter 17 Not in Our Name Fierce Allyship for White Women
• Chapter 18 White Teachers, Black Girls, and White Fragility (adapted from White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism)
• Part VI “Give light and people will find the way.” —Ella Baker
• Chapter 19 A Reimagined Pedagogy of Affirmation and Artistic Practices
• Respecting
• Part I “I’ll be bossy and damn proud.” —Rosa Clemente
• Chapter 20 Who Are Black Girls? An Intersectional Herstory of Feminism
• Chapter 21 Navigating Multiple Identities The Black Immigrant Girl Experience
• Chapter 22 Yes! Black Girls Are Genderqueer1 and Transgender, too!
• Chapter 23 Prismatic Black Girls Reflecting African Spiritualities in Learning Environments
• Part II “I am desperate for change—now—not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.” —Michelle Obama
• Chapter 24 Black Girl on the Playground
• Chapter 25 Black Girls’ Voices Matter Empowering the Voices of Black Girls Against Coopting and Colonization
• Part III “Don’t Touch My Hair” —Solange
• Chapter 26 She Wears a Crown Centering Black Girlhood in Schools
• Chapter 27 I Am Not My Hair
• Part IV “We want to turn victims into survivors—and survivors into thrivers.” —Tarana Burke
• Chapter 28 Voice Activation and Volume Control in the Workplace
• Part V “Freedom is a constant struggle.” —Angela Davis
• Chapter 29 When She’s The Only One High-Achieving Black Girls in Suburban Schools
• Chapter 30 Liminal and Limitless Black Girls in Independent Schools
• Part VI “Dreamkeepers” —Gloria Ladson-Billings
• Chapter 31 Mrs. Ruby Middleton Forsythe and the Power of Sankofa
• Connecting
• Part I “Such as I Am, a Precious Gift” —Zora Neale Hurston
• Chapter 32 Black Girls Got it Goin’ On, Yet Their Best Can Be Better
• Chapter 33 Learning to Listen to Her Psychological Verve With Black Girls
• Part II #1000BlackGirl Books —Marley Dias
• Chapter 34 Selecting and Using BACE (Blackcentric, Authentic, and Culturally Engaging) Books She Looks Like Me
• Chapter 35 Hair Representation Matters Selecting Children’s Books for Black Girls
• Chapter 36 Teaching Reading to Beautiful and Brilliant Black Girls Building a Strong Culture of Engagement
• Part III “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” —Audre Lorde
• Chapter 37 Black Girl Sisterhood as Resilience and Resistance
• Chapter 38 Respect Black Girls Prioritize, Embrace, and Value
• Chapter 39 Understanding the Intersecting Identities of Black Girls
• Chapter 40 #StudentAsSignMaker Curating Classrooms for Identity Development
• Chapter 41 Black Men Educators Teaching Brilliant and Beautiful Black Girls
• Chapter 42 Black Girl Magic Beauty, Brilliance, and Coming to Voice in the Classroom
• Part IV “Perseverance is my motto.” —Madam C. J. Walker
• Chapter 43 Listen to Her! Black Girls Constructing Activist Identities in a School-Based Leadership Program
• Chapter 44 When You Imagine a Scientist, Technologist, Engineer, Artist, or Mathematician, Imagine a Black Girl
• Chapter 45 Developing an Ethic of Engaging Black Girls in Digital Spaces
• Chapter 46 A Matter of Media Cultural Appropriation and Expectations of Black Girls
• Chapter 47 “Catch This Magic” How Schools Get in the Way of Gifted Black Girls
• Part V “Be thankful that you’ve been given that gift, because [BLACK] girls are amazing.” —Kobe Bryant
• Part VI “We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefield.” —Nana Yaa Asantewaa, Queen Mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, Ghana
• Chapter 48 Motherwork as Pedagogy
• Video Resources
• References
• Index
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