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Locating Black girls’ desires, needs, knowledge bases, and lived experiences in relation to their social identities has become increasingly important in the study of transnational girlhoods. Black Schoolgirls in Space pushes this discourse even further by exploring how Black girls negotiate and navigate borders of blackness, gender, and girlhood educational spaces. The contributors of this collected volume highlight girls as actors and agents of not only girlhood but also the larger, transnational educational worlds in which girlhoods are contained.
Esther O. Ohito is a creative writer, curriculum and cultural theorist, and educational researcher. She is an assistant professor of English/literacy education at Rutgers Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is a member of the Black Girlhoods in Education Research Collective.
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Acknowledgments
Preface: Black Schoolgirls in Space: A Portrait
Introduction: Storying Black Girlhoods on Educational Terrain
Esther O. Ohito, with Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna
Chapter 1. Black Girl Cartography: Black Girlhood and Place-Making in Education Research
Tamara T. Butler
Chapter 2. Dear Toni Morrison: On Black Girls as Makers of Theories and Worlds
Katelyn M. Campbell, Lauryn Dupree, and Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna
Chapter 3. Queer Like Me: Black Girlhood Sexuality on the Playground, Under the Covers, and in the Halls of Academia
Adilia E. E. James
Chapter 4. Black Girls and the Pipeline From Sexual Abuse to Sexual Exploitation to Prison
Nadine M. Finigan-Carr
Chapter 5. Modern-Day Manifestations of the Scarlet Letter: Othered Black Girlhoods, Deficit Discourse, and Black Teenage Mother Epistemologies in the Rural South
Taryrn T. C. Brown
Chapter 6. “You Know, Let Me Put My Two Cents In”: Using Photovoice to Locate the Educational Experiences of Black Girls
Lateasha Meyers
Chapter 7. “They Were Like Family”: Locating Schooling and Black Girl Navigational Practices in Richmond, Virginia
Renée Wilmot
Chapter 8. On Young Ghanaian Women Being, Becoming, and Belonging in Place
Susan E. Wilcox
Chapter 9. A Luo Girl’s Inheritance
Esther O. Ohito
Conclusion: As Queer as a Black Girl: Navigating Toward a Transnational Black Girlhood Studies
Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna, with Esther O. Ohito