Terror Narratives of Black Girls and Women: An Intersectionality Study

• In Event: 34.079 - Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: 34.079-1 - Critical Examinations of Black Girls and Women in Education

Abstract

Many girls and women who are Black and of color in the U.S. are grievously under-resourced, under-researched, socially, politically, and academically neglected, in addition to being physically abused (Rollock, 2007; Crenshaw, 2014; Staples, 2016). The African American Policy Forum reports that these girls and women continue to experience alarming inequalities including inconclusive educational attainment, high rates of state sanctioned and interpersonal violence, disproportionate instances of incarceration, and gross disparities in healthcare and acquisition of wealth (McCabe, Savali, 2014). Given these and other troubling findings, it is particularly imperative to understand the effects of such structural inequalities on the lived experiences of these girls and women.

Author

• Jeanine M. Staples, The Pennsylvania State University