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 inGender & society Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 546 - 556
Main Author Hill, Dominique C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2021
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Black people
Courts
Distraction
Embodiment
Feminism
Feminist theory
Girls
Justice
Media violence
Murders & murder attempts
Political violence
Race
Sanctions
Self expression
Sex crimes
Sexual violence
Sovereignty
hair
embodiment
transgression
carceral misogynoir
Black Feminist Theory
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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.
ISSN:0891-2432
1552-3977
DOI:10.1177/08912432211029394