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Session Type: Symposium
This symposium disrupts dominant constructions of Black girlhood as a singular category. Often framed by respectability discourses, these configurations position the prim, well-behaved (“good”), bourgeoisie (“bougie”) Black girl as the worthy ideal. Panelists qualitatively inquire into their curricula of wayward, space/place-based Black girlhoods, conveying nuanced knowledges borne of being Black, girl, Christian, and (from the) “hood,” or being Black suburban girls wedged between worthy and wayward. By foregrounding Black women's’ lived experiences of Black girlhoods, the symposium offers researchers and organizational stakeholders knowledge with which to complicate conversations about how curricula, pedagogies, policies, and/or programs might respond to the multitudes of subjectivities personified by Black girls, who can be “good,” “hood,” “bad,” “bougie,” and, and, and.
Curriculum of the Gutter: Confessions of a (Maybe) Reborn Black Gutter Girl - Esther O. Ohito, Rutgers University
Finding My Way to "Black": Identity Formation and the Unlearning of the White Curriculum - María Cioè-Peña, Montclair State University
It's Not Me, It's You: Examining Antiblack Racism Across the Life Span of Black Girls - Keisha McIntosh Allen, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Testing My Gangsta: Improvised Assessments of Black Girlhood in "High-Ability" Academic Spaces - Mildred Boveda, The Pennsylvania State University
Black Girls in Pursuit of STEM Learning Pathways: The Sinful Curriculum of Being Exceptionally Saved - Tia C. Madkins, The University of Texas at Austin