Charting BlackGirl Wake Work Pedagogies

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Using the lens of Christina Sharpe’s (2016) of being “in the Wake,” this symposium inquires into, illuminates, and interrogates Black girls’ evolving experiences and conceptions of Black Girlhood in the midst of anti-Blackness rhetoric and practices. The four interdisciplinary perspectives—intersecting literacy studies, literary studies, education, and trauma studies—examine multiple instances of Black girls being, creating, and imagining in an afterschool program, children’s literature, discussions of trauma, and education research.

Content Area

• AREA 7. Social, Cultural, and Political Issues of Literacy Practices In and Out of School

Chair

• Bria S Harper, Michigan State University

Discussant

• Fahima Ife, Louisiana State University

Individual Presentations

• Centering Black Girl Truth Literacies - Dywanna Smith, Claflin University

• Black Girlhood Wake Literatures - Lauren Elizabeth Johnson, Michigan State University

• Black Girl Wake Consciousness - Bria S Harper, Michigan State University

• Methods, Maps and Inquiry Modes: Black Girlhood and Cartographic Wake - Tamara T Butler, Michigan State University