Examining Black Girls' Educational Experiences Across Three Differing Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The school experiences of Black girls are often either ignored or hidden by studies that foreground either race or gender separately, but we know that not all Blacks are male and not all women are white (Bullock, 2018; Gholson, 2016; Hull et al., 1982). The three papers in this symposium speak to the AERA 2021 theme of accepting educational responsibility as they explore how various educational entities have felt the obligation to create and sustain humanizing experiences for Black girls at both the middle school and post-secondary levels. Each paper sought to advance our understanding of just how the creation and sustenance of these spaces serve Black girls in meaningful ways.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research Focus on Black Education

Chair

• Ashley L Smith-Purviance, Providence College

Papers

• "You Made Me Just Breathe": A Case for Fugitive Black Girl Space in Education - Ashley L Smith-Purviance, Providence College

• "They've Been Good to Me": Transforming a Black Girl Transfer's Experience Through a Science Program - Missy D. Cosby, Michigan State University; Xandria Raemyn Quichocho, Michigan State University

• Africa, Our Motherland; Mathematics Classrooms, Our Oppressive Space - Molade Osibodu, York University

Discussant

• Maisie L. Gholson, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor