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Esther O. Ohito (she/her/hers) is an associate professor of English and literacy education at Rutgers Graduate School of Education and affiliate faculty at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, both in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

Sherry L. Deckman (she/they/their) is a professor of education at Lehman College and also the executive officer of the PhD Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center, both part of the City University of New York in New York City, New York, USA.

Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna (she/her/hers) is a senior program associate in the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law in Washington, DC, USA.

August G. Smith (all pronouns welcome) is a doctoral student of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, New York, USA.

Inhalt

Introduction: Homeplace as Safe Haven: Black Girlhood, Belonging, and Educational Space

Esther O. Ohito, with Sherry L. Deckman, August G. Smith, and Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna

Section I

Introduction: Black Girls' Emplaced Stories and Histories

Sherry L. Deckman

Chapter 1 Black Girls Creatively Plotting Multimodal Freedom Dreams in a Black Feminist Pedagogical Practice

Esther O. Ohito

Chapter 2 Where the Black Girls At? Canadian Perspectives on the Tensions and Possibilities of Virtual Social Spaces

Kisha McPherson

Chapter 3 Affirming Identities: Black Girls Defining Themselves Through Critical Literacy Practices

Jennifer Ervin

Section II

Introduction: Room for Revisiting Revision

Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna

Chapter 4 Toward Uninterrupted Black Girlhoods: Theorizing the Strong Black Girl Schema

Taryrn T. C. Brown

Chapter 5 Brick by Brick: The Building of a 14-Year-Old Black Girl Scholar

Helena Donato-Sapp

Section III

Introduction: Bodies, Embodiment, Black Girls, and Black Girlhood

August G. Smith

Chapter 6 MOVE: Imagining Facilitating Connectivity for Black Muslim Girls in a Creative Extracurricular Space

Halimah Kihulo and Crystal Leigh Endsley Taylor

Chapter 7 Exploring Black Girls' Negotiation of Adultification Bias and Disciplinary Surveillance From Teachers in Desegregated Schools

Seanna Leath, Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, Lauren C. Mims, and Paris J. Ball

Chapter 8 Theorizing Ratchet: An Atlas of Black Girls' Embodied Defiance in Education Research

August G. Smith

Section IV

Introduction: Room for Remembering and Reclaiming the Embodied Essence of Black Girlhoods

Esther O. Ohito

Chapter 9 "Turn My Swag On": A Memory-Work Analysis of Black Girls' Reactions to Black Women Teachers' Aesthetic Stylizations at School

Asia Thomas and Danielle Apugo

Chapter 10 "A Sacred Thing": Black Women in Community-Based Educational Spaces Protecting Homeplaces for Black Girls

Khrysta A. Evans

Chapter 11 "I Am Home": A Kitchen-Table Dialogue on Black Girlhood Scholars Building Community

Seanna Leath, Tiffany Steele, and Lauren C. Mims

Epilogue

The Southern Soul(s) of Black Girlhood: Reflecting on "Black Girl Cartography"

Tamara T. Butler

Afterword

Axioms for Homemakers

Sherry L. Deckman, Esther O. Ohito, Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna, and August G. Smith

Readers' Guide

Homegirls' Reflection and Discussion Guide

Index