And Who Will Revere the Black Girl
While the mainstream media continues to narrowly define justice and reduce the site of its presence or absence to murder scenes and court cases, justice is often foreclosed long before someone is murdered and we must #SayHerName. To expand the project of Black mattering beyond race and physical deat...
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Published in | Gender & society Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 546 - 556 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Los Angeles, CA
SAGE Publications
01.08.2021
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | While the mainstream media continues to narrowly define justice and reduce the site of its presence or absence to murder scenes and court cases, justice is often foreclosed long before someone is murdered and we must #SayHerName. To expand the project of Black mattering beyond race and physical death, this essay animates how body policing through school dress code policy sanctions racial-sexual violence and provide girls with an ultimatum: either abandon body sovereignty and self-expression, or accept the consequences of being read as a distraction, a problem. (Re)membering classic Black feminist theory and the 2013 case of Vanessa Van Dyke, this essay locates these underrecognized facets of state violence as an extension of the #SayHerName project. Through a Black girlhood studies framework, the author underscores embodiment as an essential measure of justice and reframes mattering through the importance of Black girls’ crowns. |
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ISSN: | 0891-2432 1552-3977 |
DOI: | 10.1177/08912432211029394 |