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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]Description: xiii, 295 p. : ill. (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780252086694
  • 0252086694
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Contents:
Introduction: looking for Black girls in history / Corinne T. Field and Lakisha Michelle Simmons -- Interlude: Black girlhood as an analytical framework for doing history / Crystal Lynn Webster -- Part I. Girlhood. Introduction: what is the meaning of girl? / Corinne T. Field and Lakisha Michelle Simmons ; Sarah and Bess: an accounting of two black girl-friends / Tara A. Bynum ; Youth, girls, teenagers: on the intersections of race, gender, and age categories in twentieth-century South Africa / S.E. Duff ; Dubious victimhood: labor, race, age, and honor in Republican Cuban courts / Anasa Hicks ; "How to play in the right way": recreation and respectability at the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, 1915-1940 / Lindsey Elizabeth Jones ; Black girlhood remains ; Interlude: conscious of being seen / Nastassja E. Swift -- Part II. Black. Introduction: what is the meaning of "Black"? / Corinne T. Field and Lakisha Michelle Simmons ; Compromised independence: mixed-race girlhood in the Eighteenth-century French Atlantic / Jennifer L. Palmer ; Imagining freedom: Black girlhood in the Sanders-Venning family, 1815-1890 / Nazera Sadiq Wright ; "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 ; "Racial hauntings" and the complexities of Afro-German women's kin(d)ship / Vanessa D. Plumly ; Interlude: Wholly / Najya A. Williams -- Part III. Global. Introduction: what is global about black girlhood? / Corinne T. Fiend and Lakisha Michelle Simmons ; Haitian girls perform resistance in the wake of U.S. occupation: Jean F. Brierre's Famous Women in Haitian History and diasporic girlhood / Katherine Capshaw ; Moving beyond the "Dark Africa" narrative: Black girls, Black power, and the battle for a culturally relevant curriculum / Dara Walker ; A disciplined and sweet environment: girls' work and lives at the Government Reformatory in Jamaica, 1869-1937 / Shai Roper ; Roundtable: activists reflect on youth, justice, and girlhoods / Janae E. Bonsu, Beverly Palesa Ditsie, Phindile Kunene, Denise Oliver-Velez, and Claudrena N. Harold ; Conclusion: divine chaos dear homegirls / Ruth Nicole Brown -- Appendix. For Black girls: creating your own Black girlhood archive, #GlobalBlackGirlhood / Lakisha Michelle Simmons and Casidy Campbell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: looking for Black girls in history / Corinne T. Field and Lakisha Michelle Simmons -- Interlude: Black girlhood as an analytical framework for doing history / Crystal Lynn Webster -- Part I. Girlhood. Introduction: what is the meaning of girl? / Corinne T. Field and Lakisha Michelle Simmons ; Sarah and Bess: an accounting of two black girl-friends / Tara A. Bynum ; Youth, girls, teenagers: on the intersections of race, gender, and age categories in twentieth-century South Africa / S.E. Duff ; Dubious victimhood: labor, race, age, and honor in Republican Cuban courts / Anasa Hicks ; "How to play in the right way": recreation and respectability at the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, 1915-1940 / Lindsey Elizabeth Jones ; Black girlhood remains ; Interlude: conscious of being seen / Nastassja E. Swift -- Part II. Black. Introduction: what is the meaning of "Black"? / Corinne T. Field and Lakisha Michelle Simmons ; Compromised independence: mixed-race girlhood in the Eighteenth-century French Atlantic / Jennifer L. Palmer ; Imagining freedom: Black girlhood in the Sanders-Venning family, 1815-1890 / Nazera Sadiq Wright ; "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 ; "Racial hauntings" and the complexities of Afro-German women's kin(d)ship / Vanessa D. Plumly ; Interlude: Wholly / Najya A. Williams -- Part III. Global. Introduction: what is global about black girlhood? / Corinne T. Fiend and Lakisha Michelle Simmons ; Haitian girls perform resistance in the wake of U.S. occupation: Jean F. Brierre's Famous Women in Haitian History and diasporic girlhood / Katherine Capshaw ; Moving beyond the "Dark Africa" narrative: Black girls, Black power, and the battle for a culturally relevant curriculum / Dara Walker ; A disciplined and sweet environment: girls' work and lives at the Government Reformatory in Jamaica, 1869-1937 / Shai Roper ; Roundtable: activists reflect on youth, justice, and girlhoods / Janae E. Bonsu, Beverly Palesa Ditsie, Phindile Kunene, Denise Oliver-Velez, and Claudrena N. Harold ; Conclusion: divine chaos dear homegirls / Ruth Nicole Brown -- Appendix. For Black girls: creating your own Black girlhood archive, #GlobalBlackGirlhood / Lakisha Michelle Simmons and Casidy Campbell.

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