1st Edition
Black Girls' Literacies Transforming Lives and Literacy Practices
Series Editor Foreword
Introduction: Centering Black Girls’ Ways of Knowing: Past, Present, and Future by Detra
Price-Dennis and Gholnecsar E. Muhammad
Section 1: Creating Spaces for Black Girl Literacies
1. Explorations of Literacy and Black Girlhood in Out-of-Bound
Spaces by Erica Womack
2. Our Stories are Uniquely Beautiful": Black Girls’ Preamble
Writing in Literacy Collectives by Francheska Starks, Latasha Mosley,
Maya White & Gholdy Muhammad
3. Black Women and Girls Social Activism Tradition: Critical Media Literacy and the Black Girls’ Literacies Framework by Sherell A. McArthur
Kitchen Table Talk Featuring Bettina L. Love
Section 2: Black Girls’ Language and Literacy Practices
4. The Cartography of Storytelling: Black Girl Mapping
Practices by Tamara Butler
5. Black Girl to Black Girl: Gratitude Journaling as an
Emancipatory Practice by Damaris C. Dunn
6. There’s More than One Way to be Black": The Literacy
Experiences of Black African Immigrant Girls in
the United States by Maima Chea Simmons
Kitchen Table Talk Featuring Valerie Kinloch
Section 3: Reading Black Girlhood in Literature
7. Black Girls Living Between: A Critical Examination of Liminality
in The Hate U Give by Melanie A. Kirkwood-Marshall
8. Black Girlhood Entangled: An Exploration of
Nature, Magic and Community in Jewell Parker Rhodes’
Bayou Magic by Dahlia Hamza Constantine
9. Beyond the Problem: Afrofuturism as an Alternative to Realistic Fiction
about Black Girls by Stephanie Toliver
Kitchen Table Talk Featuring Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Section 4: Centering Black Girls’ Digital Literacies
10. Urban Young Adolescent Black Girls’ Digital Media
Practices: Humanizing the Digital Experience by Tonya B. Perry,
Kristie Williams, and Jameka Thomas
11. Black Adolescent Girls’ Digital Literacies in an Out-of-School Urban Secondary Literacy Context by Delicia Tiera Greene
12. Black Adolescent Girls’ Digital Literacies in an Out-of-School Urban Secondary Literacy Context by Autumn A. Griffin
Kitchen Table Talk Featuring Detra Price-Dennis
Afterword Artist, Survivor, Academic, Activist by Elaine Richardson
Postscript Black Girls’ Literacies Collective Statement
Biography
Gholnecsar E. Muhammad is Associate Professor of Middle and Secondary Education at Georgia State University, USA.
Detra Price-Dennis is Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.
