... homeless shelter low-wage work self-improvement Black girls and education ...

... Black girls and sexuality sex education sex positivism social capital care networks ...

... Chapter 3 examines the growth of black girls’ school cultures in Chicago, as well as how black organizations responded to the Great Depression by highlighting girls’ role in economic recovery. The chapter investigates how girls adjusted to Northern schools, how teachers perceived them...

... This chapter includes speeches that reflect on the state of higher education in the United States. One speech discusses the history of the creation of the Black studies program at Washington State University, while another praises women's colleges and emphasizes the need for universal education...

.... This chapter argues that normative models of work and productivity as well as education and social status fail to account for the needs and desires of young Black women. homeless shelter low-wage work self-improvement Black girls and education Chapter 3 connects the modes of performance...

... models of work and productivity as well as education and social status fail to account for the needs and desires of young Black women. homeless shelter low-wage work self-improvement Black girls and education ...

... familial, even if they are not seen as such within normative social institutions. Black girls and sexuality sex education sex positivism social capital care networks ...

... familial, even if they are not seen as such within normative social institutions. Black girls and sexuality sex education sex positivism social capital care networks Chapter 5 considers how performance emerges as a site for supporting Black girls’ individual and collective health, while...

... revealed through these speeches exemplify the feminist adage that “the personal is political.” childhood education family history service As president of the nation's only two historically Black colleges for women—Spelman College and Bennett College for Women—Johnnetta Betsch Cole's speeches...