...Kenly Brown; Lashon Daley; Derrika Hunt Abstract This article examines Black/Girlhood Imaginary, a transdisciplinary methodology that merges performance studies, Black studies, and education to research and theorize the capacious archives of Black girlhood. What the authors term Black/Girlhood...

... held, to create new futures by destabilizing the foundational laws of slave societies. neo-slave narratives Caribbean Jamaica Haiti Black girlhood Resistive (adj.): Capable of or characterized by resistance; having a tendency or disposition to resist something or someone. — Oxford...

... our own narratives, fully within ourselves.” In her Essay “Beyond Tragedy: Black Girlhood in Marlon James’s Book of Night Women and Evelyne Trouillot’s Rosalie l’infâme ,” Annette Joseph-Gabriel exemplifies Danticat’s perspective with her analysis of two novels about enslaved Black girls...

... a "discourse of risk" (Lupton 1993; Tuck 2009) for example, childhood obesity, school bullying, "girl fighting," substance use, teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections. LeConte lovingly pushes us to look to and learn from Black Feminisms and Black Girlhood Studies in our work in Black girls' health...

...Patricia Ann Lott Abstract This essay analyzes Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) as a book of lamentations for its bereaved black subject’s mother loss, social death, and prematurely ended girlhood. More specifically, it examines a daughter’s devastation over her natal alienation, violent...

...: to.2979/meridians.16.2.17 363 My Positionality I've been particularly moved by the poetry of Nikki Giovanni, the ethnographies crafted by Zora Neale Hurston, the stories told by Sista Souljah, the song lyrics of Erykah Badu and the rap lyrics of Jean Grae. Because of these iterations of Black girlhood...

... as the equivalent of a "pup that wags its tail at the very doorjamb of the butcher shop he has been kicked away from only moments before" (Morrison, 1973, 21). In the moment, Nel concentrates CASSANDRA FETTERS THE CONTINUAL SEARCH FOR SISTERHOOD 33 on the reactions of the other black passengers, particularly...

... Author and Auteur Meet: Genre, the Erotic, and Black Female Subjectivity" offers a critical reading of Martha Southgate's understudied novel, ThirdGirlfrom theLeft.Southgate's protagonists-three generations of black mothers-reclaim the subjectivity of black women in the face of sexualized stereotypes...

... is ensconced in networks of affect and affiliation. The image that drew the world’s attention to Chibok differed in several key ways. In the first place, the new image is a stark black-and-white photograph. The contrasts between the foreground and the background are heightened such that one’s eyes...

...,transnationalism2006, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 214-221] ©2006 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 214 that had never seen one before. While I deliberated Dr. Deas and daddy caught up on the news of the day. They were close friends. They were young black professional men in small town America with growing families. We...

... as in Dios ko po, just how much one womanbody endures Kadua kaasiannakami, kalapati cooing like us mourning, flame breasted, black naped, and hearts bleeding Lakbay in the song that goes, “lumipad ka, kaibigang maya,” I’m thinking of laya, and layo too Matris my mother’s mother used...

... ofinterrogating or "dismembering" representations of whiteness that Western society privileges (Morrison 1970/1994, 20). 1 This complexand often cited depiction of black girlhood has become a foundational and well-researched moment in studies of visual culture and blackness in twentieth-century African American...

... move through girlhood, marriage, and now motherhood, and likewise from controlled silence to performative protest that directly addresses the issues facing black women. 6 Hundreds are responsible for the curation and production of Lemonade; however, Beyoncé is the executive producer...

... hair, while her Pinay mom has dark skin, "long silky black hair and sparkle jewelry and manicured nails She love[d] pretty clothes and perfume." Clearly Lynda's mother indulges her own desire for "girlness" through conventional "feminine" dress and proper consumption of gendered consumer goods...

...-grandparents’ relationship to “an American black boy marrying a Southern white girl”; his great-grandfather was Chichimeca Mexican Indian and his great-grandmother “green-eyed Michoacán Spanish-ancestry pale” (Lemus 2007 , 55). 16 His maternal grandmother looked “Mexican Indian” and privileged whiteness...

... working for SNCC you essentially lost all privilege that went with being white. You had to accept all of the reprisals that anyone in the movement and any local black people had to accept. I was protected inside the movement by black communities. For example, in Mississippi I had ten different routes...

... the alleviation of these problems as dependent not simply on psychological or medical treatment but on fundamental transformations in the social meanings and societal opportunities available to women. In this essay I extend the feminist concern with embodiment to the experiences of black women. I maintain...

...Lena Palacios Abstract This essay, with accompanying lesson plan, explores how race-radical Black and Indigenous feminists theorize and resist the carceral state violence of White settler nations of Canada and the United States. It focuses on the theoretical interventions driven by Indigenous...

... at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Lena's research and teaching focuses on critical prison studies, Black, Indigenous, Chicana/Latina queer and trans feminisms, girls' and girlhood studies, transformative justice, media justice, and research justice. Lena is writing a book titled...

... in various historical, biographical, and spatial contexts and moments. For example, for a variety of reasons I explore at length elsewhere (Candelario 2000 ), Dominicans in Washington, D.C., identify as Black nearly twice as often as Dominicans in New York (see also Dore-Cabral and Itzigsohn 1997 ; Levitt...