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Bezig met laden... Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenshipdoor Aimee Meredith Cox
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I really liked this entire book until it came to the ending where they had their dance performance. I know it was trying to express that all of the girls needed room to figure out their identity but I felt like this was not that interesting and was probably the weakest way she could have ended this book. She should have ended it with the kidnappings or with the 'bleach' section. Or even with the part about the high school girls standing up for themselves was bigger news than the rapes -that part I'll remember and taught me something. Their dance performance? Not so much. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter, Cox shows how the shelter's residents--who range in age from fifteen to twenty-two--employ strategic methods she characterizes as choreography to disrupt the social hierarchies and prescriptive narratives that work to marginalize them. Among these are dance and poetry, which residents learn in shelter workshops. These outlets for performance and self-expression, Cox shows, are key to the residents exercising their agency, while their creation of alternative family structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection, and love. Cox also uses these young women's experiences to tell larger stories: of Detroit's history, the Great Migration, deindustrialization, the politics of respectability, and the construction of Black girls and women as social problems. With Shapeshifters Cox gives a voice to young Black women who find creative and non-normative solutions to the problems that come with being young, Black, and female in America. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)305.23082Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Age groups AdolescentsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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