Creating Affinity Group Programming for Black Girls Through School-Community Partnerships

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 1:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Exploring Home-School Engagement in Diverse Cultural Contexts (Table 7)

Abstract

Black girls endure racialized and gendered violence in K-12 education that result in them being pushed out of schools, permanently removed from educational opportunities and institutions. This research study explores how school principals collaborate with Black Girls Rock (BGR), a local non-profit organization, focused on enhancing Black girls’ educational journeys. This study will contain semi-structured interviews guided by Black Feminist Qualitative Inquiry with organization leaders, school principals, social workers and village builders, and after-school group facilitators. The research questions driving this study are: How do elementary and middle school principals in a predominantly white, midwestern-town support community organizations to ensure after-school programming for Black girls is successful? What are the challenges these principals face in creating these spaces?

Author

• Angelica Euseary, University of Wisconsin - Madison