ISBN:
9781441674166
,
1441674160
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 189 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sears, Stephanie D., 1964- Imagining Black womanhood
DDC:
305.2308996073
Keywords:
Womanism United States
;
Women, Black United States
;
Identity (Philosophical concept) United States
;
Electronic books
;
African American girls
;
Womanism
;
Women, Black
;
Identity (Philosophical concept)
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Children's Studies
;
African American girls
;
Identity (Philosophical concept)
;
Womanism
;
Women, Black
;
Electronic books
;
United States
Abstract:
"This book makes an important contribution by focusing on girls of color and an organization devoted to girls of color, exposing the complexities and contradictions that mark the way power, race, and gender become operationalized in practice. Well written and with rich quotes, it's a wonderful read."--Mary P. Sheridan, author of Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies: Activism in the GirlZone --Book Jacket
Abstract:
Girls Empowerment Project -- Controlling "the urban girl" -- GEP's culture of empowerment -- GEP's organizational structure and power matrix -- Africentric womanism meets decent girl femininity -- Dance lessons -- Conclusion : imagining Black womanhood, imagining social change.
Abstract:
Imagining Black Womanhood illuminates the experiences of the women and girls of the Girls Empowerment Project, an Africentric, womanist, sigle-sex, after-school program located in one of the Bay Area's largest and most impoverished housing developments. Stephanie D. Sears carefully examines the stakes of the complex negotiations of Black womanhood for both the girls served by the project and for the women who staffed it. Rather than a multigenerational alliance committed to women's and girls' empowerment, the women and girls often appeared to struggle against each other, with the girls' "politics of respect" often in conflict with the staff's "politics of respectability," a conflict especially highlighted in the public contexts of dance performances. This groundbreaking case study offers significant insights into practices of resistance, identity work, youth empowerment, cultural politics, and organizational power
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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