The "Attack" on Girls in the Hood: The Nexus of Misogynoir, Poverty, Place, and Education

• In Event: Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Education: Black Girls

Abstract

This multi-method critical study uses Matrix of Domination Theory (Collin, 2000) as a particular lens to explore Black girls’ experiences with hyper-punishment and misogynoir violence in school. This work interrogates how the intersectional power relations of race, gender, class, and location (Butler, 2018) routinize and legitimate misogynoir violence against Black girls. Specifically, this work centers on 13 Black girls with discipline records who contributed to the Concrete Rose Project, a Black-girlhood centered school-based research group, and explores how these students use CRP to co-construct knowledge about discipline, punishment, and multiple forms of misogynoir violence they experience at an “iconic ghetto” high school (Anderson, 2012) in Southern California.

Author

• Jamelia Nicole Harris, University of California - Los Angeles