Ourselves in Our Work

Dr. Toni Denese Sturdivant, scholar-activist, earned a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching. She is the author of I Like Myself: Fostering Positive Racial Identity in Young Black Children (2023), Positive Racial Identity at Home (2021), and the co-editor of Equitable and Joyful Learning in Preschool (2023). Altheria Caldera, Ph.D. is a teacher educator and scholar-activist who advances educational equity in the areas of linguistic justice, Black girls and school discipline, and anti-racist pedagogies.

Acknowledgments – Toni Denese Sturdivant/Altheria Caldera: Introduction Ourselves in Our Work: Black Women Scholars of Black Girlhood – Darlene Anita Scott: To See and Be Seen: Living and Loving the Complexities of Black Girlhood – Loren S. Cahill/Noor Jones-Bey: The Project of Black Girlhood: Reimagining Interconnectivity and Indivisibility between Black Women and Girls – Imani S. R. Minor: Positioned to Listen – Stephanie Power-Carter: Seeing through Silence: The Memory of We – Charlene M. Brown: Setting the Trend: What Black Girls Taught Me about Showing Up and Dancing with Complexity – Janine Jones: Revelations: What I’ve Learned from Black Girls – Lateasha Meyers: The Road So Far: My Unlearning and Relearning about Black Girls in Educational Spaces – Danielle K. Wright/Rashida Govan: But Some of Us Are Brave: Exploring How Black Girlhood Origin Stories Shape Sister Scholarship – Misha N. Inniss-Thompson: (Re)membering Black Girlhood: My Journey to Working with and for Black Girls – Tamika Gafford-Carter: Why I Do This Work: "I Was Built for This" – Taryrn T. C. Brown: Defining Ourselves, for Ourselves: The Embodiment of Critical Mentoring Pedagogy as Praxis in Black Girlhood Studies – Nisaa Kirtman/Kimberly Bryant: Continuing the Work of Black Girlhood Studies: Culturally Centered Program Development and Evaluation – Janelle Grant: Into the Future: Researcher’s Role in Black Girlhood Methodology – Notes on Contributors – Index.