| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Looking for Black girls in history / Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons -- Interlude: Black girlhood as an analytical framework for doing history / Crystal Lynn Webster -- Girlhood. Introduction: what is the meaning of girl? / Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons -- Sarah and Bess : an accounting of two Black girl-friends / Tara A. Bynum -- Youth, girls, teenagers : on the intersections of race, gender, and age categories in twentieth-century South Africa / S.E. Duff -- Dubious victimhood : labor, race, age, and honor in republican Cuban courts / Anasa Hicks -- "How to play in the right way" : recreation and respectability at the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, 1915-1940 / Lindsey Elizabeth Jones -- Black girlhood remains / SA Smythe -- Interlude: conscious of being seen / Nastassja E. Swift -- Black. Introduction: What is the meaning of "Black:? / Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons -- Compromised independence : mixed-race girlhood in the eighteenth-century French Atlantic / Jennifer L. Palmer -- Imagining freedom : Black girlhood in the Sanders-Venning family, 1815-1890 / Nazera Sadiq Wright -- "The girl who is to die at the rope's end" : the 1892 execution of Milbry Brown and definitions of childhood in South Carolina courts / Cynthia R. Greenlee -- "Racial hauntings" and the complexities of Afro-German women's kin(d)ship / Vanessa D. Plumly -- Interlude: Wholly / Najya A. Williams -- Global. Introduction: What is global about Black girlhood? / Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons -- Haitian girls perform resistance in the wake of U.S. occupation / Jean F. Brierre's Famous women in Haitian history and diasporic girlhood / Katharine Capshaw -- Moving beyond the "Dark Africa" narrative : Black girls, Black power, and the battle for a culturally relevant curriculum / Dara Walker -- A disciplined and sweet environment : girls' work and lives at the government reformatory in Jamaica, 1869-1837 / Shani Roper -- Roundtable : activists reflect on youth, justice, and girlhoods / Janaé E. Bonsu, Beverley Palesa Ditsie, Phindile Kunene, Denise Oliver-Velez, and Claudrena N. Harold -- Conclusion: Divine chaos dear homegirls / Ruth Nicole Brown -- Appendix. For Black girls : creating your own Black girlhood archive, #GlobalBlackGirlhood / LaKisha Michelle Simmons and Casidy Campbell |
| Summary |
"The Global History of Black Girlhood boldly claims that Black girls are so important we should know their histories. Yet, how do we find the stories and materials we need to hear Black girls' voices and understand their lives? Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons edit a collection of writings that explores the many ways scholars, artists, and activists think and write about Black girls' pasts. The contributors engage in interdisciplinary conversations that consider what it means to be a girl; the meaning of Blackness when seen from the perspectives of girls in different times and places; and the ways Black girls have imagined themselves as part of a global African diaspora. Thought-provoking and original, The Global History of Black Girlhood opens up new possibilities for understanding Black girls in the past while offering useful tools for present-day Black girls eager to explore the histories of those who came before them. Contributors: Janaé E. Bonsu, Ruth Nicole Brown, Tara Bynum, Casidy Campbell, Katherine Capshaw, Bev Palesa Ditsie, Sarah Duff, Cynthia Greenlee, Claudrena Harold, Anasa Hicks, Lindsey Jones, Phindile Kunene, Denise Oliver-Velez, Jennifer Palmer, Vanessa Plumly, Shani Roper, SA Smythe, Nastassja Swift, Dara Walker, Najya Williams, and Nazera Wright"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed November 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
Girls, Black -- History
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Girls, Black -- Race identity
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Girls, Black -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
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HISTORY -- African American & Black.
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Girls, Black
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Field, Corinne T., 1965- editor.
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Simmons, LaKisha Michelle, editor.
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| LC no. |
2021061577 |
| ISBN |
9780252053634 |
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025205363X |
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