What Does It Mean to Be a Black Girl Right Now? How Black Girls Document Their Lives Through Photographs Amid the Current Landscapes of Sexism, Racism, and COVID-19

• In Event: Race, Racism, Overlooked

Abstract

This study is guided by an interest on how young Black girls become/are researchers of their own lives in relation to and in the exacerbated social conditions of the pandemics of racism, sexism and Covid-19. Scholars have documented the need for young children to have a voice in sharing their perspectives within the classroom space, and of the generative role of photography for fostering inquiry with young children (Fontaine & Luttrell, 2015; Ghiso, 2016; Templeton, 2020). This study will be documenting how five Black girls in early childhood education engage with their own artistic research through the use of disposable cameras during multi-layered and intersectional pandemics in their racial and gendered identities.

Author

• Maureen Wiliette Nicol, Teachers College, Columbia University