Research Catalog

Title

The global history of Black girlhood / edited by Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Field, Corinne T., 1965-
• Simmons, LaKisha Michelle

Description

xiii, 295 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

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"--

Subject

• Girls, Black > History
• Girls, Black > Race identity
• Girls, Black > Social conditions
• Girls, Black > Race identity > 21st century
• Girls, Black > History and criticism > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I GIRLHOOD -- Introduction: What Is the Meaning of Girl? / Lakisha Michelle Simmons -- ch. 1 Sarah and Bess: An Accounting of Two Black Girl-Friends / Tara A. Bynum -- ch. 2 Youth, Girls, Teenagers: On the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Age Categories in Twentieth-Century South Africa / S.E. Duff -- ch. 3 Dubious Victimhood: Labor, Race, Age, and Honor in Republican Cuban Courts / Anasa Hicks -- ch. 4 "How to Play in the Right Way": Recreation and Respectability at the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, 1915 -- 1940 / Lindsey Elizabeth Jones -- ch. 5 Black Girlhood Remains / Sa Smythe -- Interlude: Conscious of Being Seen / Nastassja E. Swift -- pt. II BLACK -- Introduction: What Is the Meaning of "Black"? / Lakisha Michelle Simmons -- ch. 6 Compromised Independence: Mixed-Race Girlhood in the Eighteenth-Century French Atlantic / Jennifer L. Palmer -- ch. 7 Imagining Freedom: Black Girlhood in the Sanders-Venning Family, 1815 -- 1890 / Nazera Sadiq Wright -- ch. 8 "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 -- ch. 9 "Racial Hauntings" and the Complexities of Afro-German Women's Kin(d)ship / Vanessa D. Plumly -- Interlude: Wholly / Najya A. Williams -- pt. III GLOBAL -- Introduction: What Is Global about Black Girlhood? / Lakisha Michelle Simmons -- ch. 10 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 -- ch. 11 Moving Beyond the "Dark Africa" Narrative: Black Girls, Black Power, and the Battle for a Culturally Relevant Curriculum / Dara Walker -- ch. 12 A Disciplined and Sweet Environment: Girls' Work and Lives at the Government Reformatory in Jamaica, 1869 -- 1937 / Shani Roper -- ch. 13 Roundtable: Activists Reflect on Youth, Justice, and Girlhoods / Claudrena N. Harold.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1315

ISBN

• 9780252044625
• 0252044622
• 9780252086694
• 0252086694

LCCN

2021061576

OCLC

1266361370

Title

The global history of Black girlhood / edited by Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Field, Corinne T., 1965- editor.

Simmons, LaKisha Michelle, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1315