Examines how Black girls and women negotiate and resist dominant stereotypes in the context of an Afrocentric youth organization for at-risk girls in the Bay Ar

WINNER OF THE W.E.B. DUBOIS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS A wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation

This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphas

Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, fi

Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight agai