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Ain't Nobody Checkin' For Us': Race, Fugitivity and the Urban Geographies of Black Girlhood
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posted on 2019-08-05, 00:00 authored by Aja ReynoldsMy dissertation examines the intimate relationship between racialized state violence, gender-based violence, and Black girlhood. By studying a national nonprofit based in Chicago that runs an art and activism leadership program for African American girls, my research examines how working-class black girls use their voices, bodies, and stories to navigate and contest the socio-economic and political structures that lead to their and their families’ disposability and displacement. In turn, building on the work of Saidiya Hartman, Fred Moten, and Stefano Harney, I identify those contested sites as “fugitive spaces” in which black girls put forth nuanced self-narratives that unpack the multi-layered operations that render them invisible to themselves, their communities, and the various apparati of the state. Additionally, it provides a framework for a pedagogy of care as we engage with Black girls from a place of solidarity.
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Stovall, DavidChair
Stovall, DavidDepartment
Educational Policy StudiesDegree Grantor
University of Illinois at ChicagoDegree Level
- Doctoral
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Lipman, Pauline Nguyen, Nicole Ferguson, Roderick Brown, RuthSubmitted date
May 2019Issue date
2019-05-14Usage metrics
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