abuse and resistance
African American girls
and K-12 schools
black girls and self-love
black girls and violence in schools
Black girls voice
black women collective knowing and counter-storytelling
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discrimination in the K-12 classroom
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experience of black girls in K-12 classrooms
female black youth narratives and school culture
gender
girls overcoming abuse
girls surviving racism
identify
identity and education
memory work and identify
narrative therapy
race
resiliency of young black women
sexual harassment of young black women students
sexuality and young black women
shared experiences of black girls
student gender and school culture
trauma and resilience
unfiltered black girlhood
urban education
young black female students and abuse
Product details
- ISBN 9780807764527
- Weight: 209g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Strong Black Girls lays bare the harm Black women and girls are expected to overcome in order to receive an education in America. It captures the routinely muffled voices and experiences of these students through storytelling, essays, letters, and poetry. The authors make clear that the strength of Black women and girls should not merely be defined as the ability to survive racism, abuse, and violence. Readers will also see resistance and resilience emerge through the central themes that shape these reflective, coming-of-age narratives. Each chapter is punctuated by discussion questions that extend the conversation around the everyday realities of navigating K–12 schools, such as sexuality, intergenerational influence, self-love, anger, leadership, aesthetic trauma (hair and body image), erasure, rejection, and unfiltered Black girlhood. Strong Black Girls is essential reading for everyone tasked with teaching, mentoring, programming, and policymaking for Black females in all public institutions.
Book Features:
- A spotlight on the invisible barriers impacting Black girls' educational trajectories.
- A survey of the intersectional notions of strength and Black femininity within the context of K–12 schooling.
- Narrative therapy through unpacking system stories of oppression and triumph.
- Insights for building skills and tools to make substantial and lasting change in schools.
Danielle Apugo is an assistant professor and visiting faculty scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University. Lynnette Mawhinney is associate professor and chair of the Department of Urban Education at Rutgers University-Newark. Afiya Mbilishaka an assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of the District of Columbia.
