Imagining Black Womanhood: The Negotiation of Power and Identity within the Girls Empowerment Project

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Appendix Interview Guide GEP GIRLS Background 1. How old are you? 2. What grade are you in? 3. What is your racial identity? 4. With whom do you live? 5. How would you describe your family? 6. Where do you live? 7. How long have you lived there? 8. How would you describe the neighborhood in which you grew up? 9. How long have you attended GEP? Family 1. Whose idea was it for you to attend GEP? 2. What is your relationship like with your parents/caregivers and siblings? 3. Do you talk with your parents/caregivers about GEP? If so, what about? 4. What do you think your parents would like for you to be learning at GEP? 5. Have there been any conflicts between your parents and GEP? If so, what were they? 151 Inside GEP 1. What is your favorite activity/program at GEP? 2. Do you feel that what you are learning at GEP is relevant to your life? 3. How do you feel about GEP staff? 4. If you could plan activities for GEP for a week, what would you do? 5. What contributions do you feel you make to GEP? 6. How have things changed since you have been here? 7. If you could change anything at GEP, what would you change? 8. Have you changed since attending GEP? If so, how? 9. How would you describe the girls who attend GEP? 10. What would a “successful GEP girl” look like? Act like? 11. What would a “GEP failure” look like? Act like? 12. How would you describe the relationships between the girls within GEP? 13. Does GEP have any effect on how you feel about being a Black girl? 14. What do your friends think about GEP? 15. Do you have friends that don’t attend GEP? Why not? 16. What do the men/boys in your life think about GEP? 17. How do you feel about attending an all-girls program? 18. What do you like best about GEP being all girls? The least? Do you wish GEP admitted boys? Gender Relations 1. What is it like being a girl today? 2. When does a girl become a woman? What are some of the qualities/ characteristics that separate a girl from a woman? 3. Do you consider yourself a girl or a woman? 4. Are there things you would like to see changed about relationships between men and women? 5. Who are your role models? Or are there women you would like to be like when you grow up? 6. Are there women you do not want to be like? Race Relations 1. How is life different or the same for you as a girl of color? 2. Would you want GEP to admit White girls into the program? Other girls of color? Why/Why not? 152 IMAGINING BLACK WOMANHOOD Hot Spots (Power, Teen Pregnancy, and Dance) 1. What do you see yourself doing ten years from now? Who and what influenced your decision? 2. What do you think about girls who become mothers as teens? 3. What generally happens when GEP girls become pregnant? 4. What do you think GEP should do when girls get pregnant? 5. What happened when the little girls started dancing at the community talent show? 6. Do you think it was okay for them to dance like that? 7. What happens when GEP girls dance? GEP STAFF AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Background 1. Tell me a little about yourself. 2. How old are you? 3. What is your racial identity? 4. How would you describe your family? 5. Where do you live? 6. How long have you lived there? 7. How would you describe the neighborhood in which you grew up? 8. In which social class do you locate yourself? 9. When did you begin working at GEP? What circumstances brought you to teach here? 10. Describe a healthy Black woman. 11. What are some of the challenges facing young Black girls today? 12. How do you attempt to help girls overcome these challenges? 13. What are some of the similarities and differences between when you were growing up and now? Inside GEP 1. How would you describe GEP? 2. How has the experience of teaching inside a single-sex, African-centered program been for you? Has it had any impact on your teaching? 3. Have you heard of the terms Africentric and...