All About Black Girl Love in Education

Drawing from bell hooks' 1999 book All About Love, this volume builds on theories of love as they relate to Black Girlhood in education, shedding light on educational practices rooted in love and exploring strategies for centering Black girls and love in Grades K-12.

Autorentext

Autumn Griffin is Postdoctoral Research Associate on the NSF-funded Black Girl Brilliance STEM Grant Fellow in the Middle and Secondary Education Department at Georgia State University, USA.

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is Professor in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

Klappentext

Drawing from bell hook's 1999 book All About Love, this volume builds on theories of love as they relate to Black Girlhood in education, shedding light on educational practices rooted in love and exploring strategies for centering Black girls and love in Grades K-12.

Zusammenfassung
Drawing from bell hooks' 1999 book All About Love, this volume builds on theories of love as they relate to Black Girlhood in education, shedding light on educational practices rooted in love and exploring strategies for centering Black girls and love in Grades K-12.

Inhalt

Foreword Introduction: For the Love of Black Girls Section 1: Giving Love Words 1. Written in the Waves: Black Mermaids as Love, Memory, and Writing Muses 2. #ILoveUsForReal: Healing Our Inner Child to Fiercely Love Black Girls in the Community Context 3. Love Is a Revolution: A Conversation with Renée Watson Black Girl Literacy in 3 Parts Section 2: Childhood Love Lessons 4. Returning Home: Exploring How Black Women Use Freedom as Movement 5. Black Feminism in Critical Pedagogy: Daughtering as an Embodied Praxis of Love and Care Best Friend Poem Section Three: Be True to Love 6. Black Girl Love in the Time of Isolation 7. Sustaining Partnerships to Support Black Girls in STEM: The Sexy, The Heavy, and The Complexities 8. Cultivating Voices of Black Girls in White Spaces Renewal Section Four: Let Love Be in Me 9. **Learning to Love: An Ode to Black Women Educators 10. A Gendered Literacy: The Practice of Caring for and Curating with Young Black Girls 11. A Letter from One of Your Daughters of the Yam A Conversation with Myself Section Five: Divine Love 12. Holy By Our Own: Theorizing Black Girl Divine Love 13. A Place Where Souls Can Rest: Black Girl Freedom, Liberation, and Emancipation 14. Black Girls, Love, and Jesus: Reimagining Restorative Practices in Education Using Biblical Principles the time of pitch Section Six: The Future of Black Girlhood** 15. "Dear Sankofa": (Re)Turning to You, With Love 16. Spirit, Song, and Sisterhood: Sayings of a Sun Goddess Backbones Epilogue The Love and Light of Black Girls