Black Gurl Reliable

Dominique C. Hill is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Colgate University. She is the co-author with Durell M. Callier of Who Look at Me?! Shifting the Gaze of Education through Blackness, Queerness, and the Body.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Storying Black Girls Reliably: Black Feminism, Groove[ing], and the Self1. “Sing a Black Girl’s Song”: A Code for Black Girlhood Studies2. Reverse Osmosis to Awaken Flesh: An Experiment in Undressing3. my Hair, my Mirror, my Own: A Lesson in (Self) Recognition4. Willful Touch: An Experiment in Body-Activation5. Teaching Black Girlhood: A Lesson in Cultivating RigorConclusion: Gifts of Being with Black GirlhoodNotesBibliographyIndex

“In the intersections of a body scholarship and the soul of a personal journey, Dr. Dominique Hill illustrates new insights concerning Black Girlhood and Black Womn's Studies. Here in this book, poetry, dance, the gifts of 'knowing,' and memory become the urgent and embodied inspiration Black Gurl Reliable. This is a book of distinction and a long-awaited addition to the canon of Feminist and Gender Studies, Performance Studies, Black Studies, Pedagogical Theory, and exercises in liberation.”—DaMaris B. Hill, author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood