Black Youths, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice Book

IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THIS, YOU ARE NOT TRULY LOVING BLACKS GIRLS AND WOMEN!
PERIOD

As I continue to read Black Girlhood Celebration by Ruth Nicole Brown, I am beginning to understand better how her framework of celebration becomes a political action. Through the use of dance, hip hop, writing and discussion, Brown is able to argue that Black Girlhood is fragile and is something that comes in many different forms. Thus, when these complexities come together as a communal space, a dialogue is created, centering Black Girls, their identities, their narratives and their lived experiences in the United States. Furthermore, this dialogue allows for the possibility of body and voice reclamation as well as power in order to resist against the stereotypes and marginalizations that society creates and places surrounding Black Girlhood. Through Celebration, Black Girls and Women are able to be recognized, valued, supported, loved and healed by being open to news way of being and trusting that if they open themselves up to fluidity, they may transform and find the liberation they lost long ago.