Black Girls' Literacies

Gholnecsar E. Muhammad is Associate Professor of Middle and Secondary Education at Georgia State University, USA.Detra Price-Dennis is Associate Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

• Series Editor ForewordIntroduction: Centering Black Girls’ Ways of Knowing: Past, Present, and Future by Detra Price-Dennis and Gholnecsar E. Muhammad Section 1: Creating Spaces for Black Girl Literacies1. Explorations of Literacy and Black Girlhood in Out-of-Bound Spaces by Erica Womack 2. Our Stories are Uniquely Beautiful": Black Girls’ Preamble Writing in Literacy Collectives by Francheska Starks, Latasha Mosley, Maya White & Gholdy Muhammad 3. Black Women and Girls Social Activism Tradition: Critical Media Literacy and the Black Girls’ Literacies Framework by Sherell A. McArthur Kitchen Table Talk Featuring Bettina L. Love Section 2: Black Girls’ Language and Literacy Practices 4. The Cartography of Storytelling: Black Girl Mapping Practices by Tamara Butler5. Black Girl to Black Girl: Gratitude Journaling as an Emancipatory Practice by Damaris C. Dunn6. There’s More than One Way to be Black": The Literacy Experiences of Black African Immigrant Girls in the United States by Maima Chea SimmonsKitchen Table Talk Featuring Valerie Kinloch Section 3: Reading Black Girlhood in Literature 7. Black Girls Living Between: A Critical Examination of Liminalityin The Hate U Give by Melanie A. Kirkwood-Marshall 8. Black Girlhood Entangled: An Exploration of Nature, Magic and Community in Jewell Parker Rhodes’ Bayou Magic by Dahlia Hamza Constantine 9. Beyond the Problem: Afrofuturism as an Alternative to Realistic Fiction about Black Girls by Stephanie Toliver Kitchen Table Talk Featuring Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Section 4: Centering Black Girls’ Digital Literacies 10. Urban Young Adolescent Black Girls’ Digital Media Practices: Humanizing the Digital Experience by Tonya B. Perry, Kristie Williams, and Jameka Thomas11. Black Adolescent Girls’ Digital Literacies in an Out-of-School Urban Secondary Literacy Context by Delicia Tiera Greene12. Black Adolescent Girls’ Digital Literacies in an Out-of-School Urban Secondary Literacy Context by Autumn A. GriffinKitchen Table Talk Featuring Detra Price-Dennis Afterword Artist, Survivor, Academic, Activist by Elaine Richardson Postscript Black Girls’ Literacies Collective Statement