Brown, Ruth Nicole,

Hear our truths : the creative potential of black girlhood / Ruth Nicole Brown. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource. - Dissident feminisms .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Tiara : endangered black girls instruction -- Black women remember black girls : a collective and creative memory -- When black girls look at you : an anti-narrative photo-poem -- Bad days : "If you hit me, I'm gonna hit you back" -- More than sass or silence : the creative potential of black girlhood.

"This volume examines how 'Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths,' or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this creativity informs other realizations about Black girlhood and womanhood."--Page 4 of cover.



9781306220316

2019717346

016584398 Uk


African American teenage girls.
African American young women.
African American youth.


Electronic Books.

E185 / .H437 2013