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Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
Duke University Press
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978-0-8223-7537-1
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
Narratives of Protest and Play
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Published:July 2015
Chapter 3 connects the modes of performance in everyday life that Fresh Start residents employ to most effectively maneuver and assert their cultural and personal sensibilities within hostile contexts. As the word play in the title suggests, Black girls’ self-presentations are frequently at least as much collective expressions that work to entertain and uplift the girls as they are declarations of self-definition meant to respond to mandated social scripts for Black girlhood. A week-long camping trip in Ohio and the oral history surrounding a protest staged by the residents in the early days of the shelter are the main narratives...
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