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Ain’t I a Girl: Black Girls Negotiating Gender, Race, and Class

Wahome, Samatha
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313436849

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
This study sought to address the lack of research on young Black girls’ experiences in schooling and in their relationships with peers by exploring the experiences and perspectives of three second-grade Black girls, Adrianna, Raell, and Mariah. The particular goal of the study was to examine the ways that they were positioned and the ways they positioned themselves within the peer cultural discourses of the classroom and the prominent sociocultural discourses they drew from to explain their perceptions of these peer cultural discourses. Additionally, I was interested in the way in which discourses of difference, including discourses of race, class, and gender, were taken up within their perceptions and experiences. The results indicated that each girl had similar, yet distinctly different positionings within the larger sociocultural discourses of the classroom and their peer cultural worlds. Their perspectives were imbued with the sociohistorical, political, familial, and personal worlds that were a part of their experience. I began to theorize across each of these cases in the final chapter, revealing the complexity and commonalities of their perspectives and agency.
Barbara Seidl, PhD (Committee Chair)
Cynthia Dillard, PhD (Committee Member)
Laurie Katz, PhD (Committee Member)
251 p.
African Americans; Black Studies; Early Childhood Education; Education; Educational Sociology; Gender; Womens Studies
Identity; Black girls; Black students; African American students; Early Childhood; Elementary Education; Peer Culture; African American girls; Race; Class; Gender; Black feminism; Endarkened feminism; Peer relationships; Sociocultural

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  • Wahome, S. (2011). Ain’t I a Girl: Black Girls Negotiating Gender, Race, and Class [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313436849

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wahome, Samatha. Ain’t I a Girl: Black Girls Negotiating Gender, Race, and Class. 2011. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313436849.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wahome, Samatha. "Ain’t I a Girl: Black Girls Negotiating Gender, Race, and Class." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313436849

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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