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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Field, Corinne T., 1965- editor.

Simmons, LaKisha Michelle, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls, Black--History.

Girls, Black.

Girls, Black--Race identity.

Girls, Black--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Global history of Black girlhood

ISBN:

9780252044625

0252044622

9780252086694

0252086694

OCLC:

1266361370

Publisher Number:

99991554370