Black Schoolgirls in Space

Esther O. Ohito is a creative writer, and educational researcher. She is an associate professor of English/literacy education at Rutgers Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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Acknowledgments



Introduction: Storying Black Girlhoods on Educational Terrain

Esther O. Ohito with Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna



Chapter 1. Black Girl Cartography: Black Girlhood and Place-Making in Education Research*

Tamara T. Butler

*This chapter is not available Open Access



Chapter 2. Dear Toni Morrison: On Black Girls as Makers of Theories and Worlds

Katelyn M. Campbell, Lauryn DuPree, and Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna



Chapter 3. Queer Like Me: Black Girlhood Sexuality on the Playground, under the Covers, and in the Halls of Academia

Adilia E. E. James



Chapter 4. Black Girls and the Pipeline from Sexual Abuse to Sexual Exploitation to Prison

Nadine M. Finigan-Carr



Chapter 5. Modern-Day Manifestations of the Scarlet Letter: Othered Black Girlhoods, Deficit Discourse, and Black Teenage Mother Epistemologies in the Rural South

Taryrn T. C. Brown



Chapter 6. “You Know, Let Me Put My Two Cents In”: Using Photovoice to Locate the Educational Experiences of Black Girls

Lateasha Meyers



Chapter 7. “They Were Like Family”: Locating Schooling and Black Girl Navigational Practices in Richmond, Virginia

Renée Wilmot



Chapter 8. On Young Ghanaian Women Being, Becoming, and Belonging in Place

Susan E. Wilcox



Chapter 9. A Luo Girl’s Inheritance

Esther O. Ohito



Conclusion: As Queer as a Black Girl: Navigating Toward a Transnational Black Girlhood Studies

Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna with Esther O. Ohito



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