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Black Girl Genius: Theorizing Girlhood, Identity and Knowledge Production
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Austin, Sierra J
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532077146785451
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Year and Degree
2018, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Abstract
Through a framework combining Black girlhood studies, hip hop feminism, and critical discourse perspectives, this qualitative research project explores the ways in which Black middle school girls intellectually apply their collective embodied knowledge and Black Girl Genius (gender and age specific language, art, performance and music) to enact freedom at a time of national anti-black girlness. In identifying and building upon the agentive discourse practices of Black girls, this works seeks to develop, excavate, and preserve the critical consciousness of Black girls, while also elucidating the self-care practices that emerge as a researcher working from girlhood. Implicated in self-care is the loving act of serving as a homegirl , which incites a unique methodological disruption that makes hip hop feminist ideology accessible to broader audiences, rather than being confined to the academy.
Committee
Treva Lindsey (Committee Chair)
Elaine Richardson (Committee Co-Chair)
Wendy Smooth (Committee Member)
Subject Headings
Womens Studies
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Austin, S. J. (2018).
Black Girl Genius: Theorizing Girlhood, Identity and Knowledge Production
[Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532077146785451
APA Style (7th edition)
Austin, Sierra.
Black Girl Genius: Theorizing Girlhood, Identity and Knowledge Production.
2018. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532077146785451.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Austin, Sierra. "Black Girl Genius: Theorizing Girlhood, Identity and Knowledge Production." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532077146785451
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