Monique Lane is a proud mama, an award-winning classroom teacher, and an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California. Born and raised in South Los Angeles, Dr. Lane earned a Ph.D. in Urban Schooling from UCLA and served as a Provost’s Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Her research advances Black feminist pedagogy and Black women’s educational parenting strategies as disruptors to school-based stressors that threaten Black girl learners’ opportunities to thrive. Equity & Excellence in Education, International Journal of Educational Reform, and The Urban Review feature notable articles by Dr. Lane.

• Foreword by Bettina Love – Acknowledgments – Introduction – A Call for Identity Work: Black Feminist Pedagogy and Black Girl Learners – Organized Turmoil: A Struggling School with Boundless Potential – Invisibility and Hyper- Visibility: Perceptions of Black Girls in an Urban School – Unpacking the Pedagogy – Engendering #BlackGirlJoy – Silencing the Ego: Lessons for Developing a Transformative Praxis – Index.

“Dr. Monique Lane opens new dialogue on the place of Black girls in curriculum and instruction from a Black teacher’s standpoint. With so much attention across the nation on the state of Black girls, including on the minds of celebrities and laypersons alike, Dr. Lane’s text provides us much direction for classroom discourse and pedagogy. Black girls’ ‘place’ is everywhere!”—Venus Evans-Winters, editor of the Urban Girls book series

Monique Lane is a proud mama, an award-winning classroom teacher, and an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California. Born and raised in South Los Angeles, Dr. Lane earned a Ph.D. in Urban Schooling from UCLA and served as a Provost’s Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Her research advances Black feminist pedagogy and Black women’s educational parenting strategies as disruptors to school-based stressors that threaten Black girl learners’ opportunities to thrive. Equity & Excellence in Education, International Journal of Educational Reform, and The Urban Review feature notable articles by Dr. Lane.

• Foreword by Bettina Love – Acknowledgments – Introduction – A Call for Identity Work: Black Feminist Pedagogy and Black Girl Learners – Organized Turmoil: A Struggling School with Boundless Potential – Invisibility and Hyper- Visibility: Perceptions of Black Girls in an Urban School – Unpacking the Pedagogy – Engendering #BlackGirlJoy – Silencing the Ego: Lessons for Developing a Transformative Praxis – Index.

“Dr. Monique Lane opens new dialogue on the place of Black girls in curriculum and instruction from a Black teacher’s standpoint. With so much attention across the nation on the state of Black girls, including on the minds of celebrities and laypersons alike, Dr. Lane’s text provides us much direction for classroom discourse and pedagogy. Black girls’ ‘place’ is everywhere!”—Venus Evans-Winters, editor of the Urban Girls book series

Monique Lane is a proud mama, an award-winning classroom teacher, and an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California. Born and raised in South Los Angeles, Dr. Lane earned a Ph.D. in Urban Schooling from UCLA and served as a Provost’s Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Her research advances Black feminist pedagogy and Black women’s educational parenting strategies as disruptors to school-based stressors that threaten Black girl learners’ opportunities to thrive. Equity & Excellence in Education, International Journal of Educational Reform, and The Urban Review feature notable articles by Dr. Lane.

• Foreword by Bettina Love – Acknowledgments – Introduction – A Call for Identity Work: Black Feminist Pedagogy and Black Girl Learners – Organized Turmoil: A Struggling School with Boundless Potential – Invisibility and Hyper- Visibility: Perceptions of Black Girls in an Urban School – Unpacking the Pedagogy – Engendering #BlackGirlJoy – Silencing the Ego: Lessons for Developing a Transformative Praxis – Index.

“Dr. Monique Lane opens new dialogue on the place of Black girls in curriculum and instruction from a Black teacher’s standpoint. With so much attention across the nation on the state of Black girls, including on the minds of celebrities and laypersons alike, Dr. Lane’s text provides us much direction for classroom discourse and pedagogy. Black girls’ ‘place’ is everywhere!”—Venus Evans-Winters, editor of the Urban Girls book series