Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood

Index

Index Addis, 225–26 Akili, Camp, 229 Aleia, 144, 150, 171–72 Alexander, M. Jacqui: on crossings, 57; healing work as antidote, 82; Pedagogies of Crossing, 15, 49–50, 55–56; on presence and participation , 78; relationship between memory, time, and body, 62; on rituals of remembrance, 76; on spiritual practices, 64–65; on yearning for wholeness, 93 Angie (homegirl), 17 “Antidote, The,” 82–88 anti-narrative photo poems, 15, 101–2, 105–6, 109, 112–18 anti-narrative poems, 15, 113, 114, 115–16 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 49–50, 211 Arie, India, 24 “Art of Homegirling,” 52–53 Assata (Shakur), 22 “at the end of the day,” 2, 97, 226 bad-day stories, 139, 142 Bambara, Toni Cade: “Girl’s Story, A,” 15–16, 151–53, 166–68; Salt Eaters , The (1999), 3; “Seabirds Are Still Alive, The,” 182n8; on truth in poetry, 159; on unavailability for servitude, 182 Barnett, LaShonda, 193–94, 195 Batty dance, 62–63, 62n2, 65, 66–67, 78 Behar, Ruth, 111–12 Berger, John, 101–2, 112 Black girlhood celebration: and Black womanhood, 53; in Endangered Black Girls (EBG), 28, 29; homegirls’ participation in, 48, 52–53, 96, 104; personal histories reflected in, 57; sacred work of creating, 51; selfrecognition in, 104; SOLHOT as space for, 39, 44, 82, 228 Black Girlhood Celebration (Brown), 8, 62n2 “Black Girlhood Subjectivity,” 88–93. See also subjectivity Black girl sound(s), 187, 188, 189–90, 192–93, 210–15 Black Girls Rock, 3 “Black Girl’s Song, A,” 149 “Black Girl’s Truth, A” (Taaffe), 155–59 BlackLight, 229 Blackmon, Toni, 192–93 booty/capitalism logic, 16, 178, 188, 206–10 Bourdieu, Pierre, 50 Boyce Davies, Carol, 114 Bright Smile, Quiet Girl (homegirl), 67, 73 BrokenBeautiful Press, 229 Brown, Lyn, 140 Burris, Mary Ann, 110 Busia, Abena, 182 Camp Akili, 229 Candy (homegirl), 107–9, 230 capitalism, 140, 178, 209; /booty logic, 16, 178, 188, 206–10 Carrington, Kiwane, 148 Chi-City (homegirl), 230 choreopoems, 148, 149 Christian, Barbara, 35 240 index Clifton, Lucille, 230 Cole, Amber, 46, 47 collective and creative memories, 15, 48, 53–56 Color Struck (Hurston), 29, 30 Combahee River Collective, 39 Conquergood, Dwight, 30, 186 Cox, Aimee, 28, 229 creative and collective memories, 15, 48, 53–56 creative engagement, 11, 12 creative methodologies, 3–4, 26, 228 creative potential of Black girlhood, 3–4, 16, 187–90, 210, 214 creativity, 12–13, 45, 91, 230 crossings, 57–62, 99 cross-writing, 113–15 dances: Batty, 62–63, 62n2, 65, 66–67, 78; jukin’, 201, 202 Davis, Angela, 230 DeCarava, Roy, 106 Deck, Alice, 29 Denzin, Norman, 113 Destiny’s Child, 147 Dillard, Cynthia, 50–51 “Director’s Cut, The” (Brown), 215–17 “Discussion: A Black Girl Sound Nobody Can Organize,” 210–14 dominant categorizations, 16, 185, 187, 188, 213. See also stereotypes dominant images, 101, 103–6 Double Dutch, 69–70 Durham, Aisha, 191, 192, 193 Elliot, Natalie, 179–80 Endangered Black Girls (EBG) (Brown): black girlhood celebration in, 29; as catalyst for SOLHOT, 14–15, 25–26, 44–45; excerpt from, 21–24; lived experiences in, 20–21; as performance ethnography, 31; performances of, 14–15, 25–26, 29–30, 36–39, 38n2 ethnographies: auto-, 29; music, 194, 202, 214–15; performance, 31, 32, 35, 36; photography in, 110–12 Feldman, Martha, 25, 27 feminism, hip-hop, 16, 189, 191, 193, 195, 227 feminist pedagogy, hip-hop, 8, 191 fighting: bad-day stories about, 139; in “Black Girl’s Truth, A,” 158–60; creative responses to, 149, 182–83; in “Girl’s Story, A,” 16; in homes, 173–74; implications of, 180–81; interviews about, 141, 142–44, 150, 153–55, 160–62, 168–73; in Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood, 15–16, 144–46; stereotypes of, 139; as survival strategy , 147–48; in “Theory vs. Praxis,” 162–66; in Why Girls Fight, 140. See also violence Fine One, The (homegirl), 66, 82 Finney, Nikky, 35, 179–80, 184, 187, 230 Flynn, Richard, 115, 117 “For a Queen” (Brown), 174–77 games: Batty dance, 62–63, 62n2, 65, 66–67, 78; Double Dutch, 69; Little Sally Walker, 41, 66; music in, 192–93 Garner, Porshe, 146 Gaunt, Kyra, 191, 192 Gbowee, Leymeh, 2 Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 152, 179 Ginwright, Shawn, 229 Giovanni, Nikki, 230 Girls Empowerment Project, 229 “Girl’s Story, A” (Bambara), 16, 151–53, 166–68, 182–83 Girl Time, 229 Golden-Biddle, Karen, 7, 27 Gordon, Avery, 151–52 Gossett, Hattie, 33 Greene, Maxine, 27 Gregson v. Gilbert...