Reviews for Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy

The average rating for Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-06-20 00:00:00 Samuel Higgins This book passionately illustrates why the celebration of Black girlhood is essential. Based on the principles and practices of a Black girl- centered program, it examines how performances of everyday Black girlhood are mediated by popular culture, personal truths, and lived experiences, and how the discussion and critique of these factors can be a great asset in the celebration of Black girls. Drawing on scholarship from women's studies, African American studies, and education, the book skillfully joins poetry, autobiographical vignettes, and keen observations into a wholehearted, participatory celebration of Black girls in a context of hip-hop feminism and critical pedagogy. Through humor, honesty, and disciplined research it argues that hip-hop is not only music, but also an effective way of working with Black girls. Black Girlhood Celebration recognizes the everyday work many young women of color are doing, outside of mainstream categories, to create social change by painting an unconventional picture of how complex'and necessary-the goal of Black girl celebration can be.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-08-19 00:00:00 Scott Oakford 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.