...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...

... their form (Gordon 2011 ). Resistive (adj.): Capable of or characterized by resistance; having a tendency or disposition to resist something or someone. — Oxford English Dictionary neo-slave narratives Caribbean Jamaica Haiti Black girlhood Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022...

... Ruth Nicole . 2009 . Black Girlhood Celebration Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy . New York : Peter Lang . Butler Octavia E. Dawn . 2014 . London, UK : Headline . Cottom Tressie McMillan . 2019 . Thick: And Other Essays . New York : New Press . Dischinger...

... not just rectifying old narratives, we’re writing 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...

... 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...

... Lorde’s poem, “A Litany for Survival” and beautifully “explores the relationship between the body, landscape, history, and memory.” In a similar vein, Chamara Moore’s “Beyond Black Girlhood: An Underground Railroad to Nowhere” argues that Cora, a protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s award-winning novel...

... of these iterations of Black girlhood and Black womanhood, I have found myself in between curating parts and pieces of their work that look like me, holding them close and engaging with them transparently. For this reason, as a Black woman who was once a Black girl, I'm moved to explore my personal lived experiences...

... 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...

..., 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 are drawn to the brightest points, the girl’s face and eyes, and away from the darkened areas where the other people are clustered. Furthermore, a single...

...,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...

... 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 to say we were molded from mud now, only mimesis of mythology...

... 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...

...Sequoia Maner Abstract This essay traces the ethical impulse of Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album, Lemonade. I frame the writings of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston as antecedent creations that depict black women’s journeys into interior psychic spaces as method for healing. Reading the trope...

... 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...

... and then I went on to staff in 1963. As a white person 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...

... 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...