Critical Conversation Spaces as Consciousness-Raising Contexts for Black Girls

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  In Roundtable Session: #FugitiveSpaces: For Black Girls and Black Youth Thrive (Table 25)

Abstract

To develop confidence in their identities, Black girls must make meaning of their lived experiences. Critical conversation spaces (CCSs; Carter Andrews et al., 2019) provide a context for this meaning-making, centering reflection on gender and race. We document Black girls’ sociopolitical ideations as they arose within an in-school, CCS curriculum designed to encourage their critical consciousness of interlocking systems of oppression in their own experiences. Employing the theoretical framework of girls of color’s positive youth development, we analyzed focus group and interview data using Rigorous and Accelerated Data Reduction. We explore their developing intersectional awareness through their recognition and celebration of diversity and the multiplicity of Blackness.

Authors

• Gabrielle Kubi, Boston College

• Mara D. Johnson, University of Michigan

• Hyeri Mel Yang, University of Michigan

• Jamaal Matthews, University of Michigan