| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- "We came here to be different" : the Brown family and remapping Detroit -- Renovations -- Narratives of protest and play -- Sex, gender, and scripted bodies -- The move experiment -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter, Cox shows how the shelter's residents--who range in age from fifteen to twenty-two--employ strategic methods she characterizes as choreography to disrupt the social hierarchies and prescriptive narratives that work to marginalize them. Among these are dance and poetry, which residents learn in shelter workshops. These outlets for performance and self-expression, Cox shows, are key to the residents exercising their agency, while their creation of alternative family structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection, and love. Cox also uses these young women's experiences to tell larger stories: of Detroit's history, the Great Migration, deindustrialization, the politics of respectability, and the construction of Black girls and women as social problems. With Shapeshifters Cox gives a voice to young Black women who find creative and non-normative solutions to the problems that come with being young, Black, and female in America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-272) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 6, 2022) |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Detroit Mich. gnd |
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African American girls -- Michigan -- Detroit
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Homeless girls -- Michigan -- Detroit
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African American homeless persons -- Michigan -- Detroit
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Society.
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African American girls
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African American homeless persons
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Homeless girls
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Junge Frau
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Schwarze
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Weibliche Obdachlose
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Obdachlosenasyl
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Soziale Situation
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Soziale Probleme
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Armut
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Rassismus
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Gewalt
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Wirtschaftliche Lage
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Society.
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Michigan -- Detroit
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822375371 |
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0822375370 |
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