Excluded Girls in Excluded Places: How Black Girls Navigate Crises in the Home and School

• In Event: Alternatives to Kinship Ties: How Black Women and Girls Survive Crisis

Abstract

In this paper, I explore how exclusion shapes the subjectivity of Black girls. Subjectivity is informed by various external conditions to produce discrete lived experiences (Collins, 2000; Simmons, 2015; Cox, 2015). Exclusion is not a linear process where there is a singular progression of events that lead to a specific outcome. Rather, exclusion is a process that manifests itself in various ways to shape decisions participants make to negotiate conditions of instability and violence. I examine how exclusion -as a product of institutional racism (Jones, 2017; Ladner, 1970)-shapes how home and school influence the choices and subjectivity of Black girls.

Presenter

• Kenly Elizabeth Kelly Brown, UC Berkeley