title: Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy (Mediated Youth)
author:  Ruth Nicole Brown 
description: Ruth Nicole Brown provides a dazzlingly insightful look into the spatial practices cultivated by black girls who speak through hip-hop. The significance of Browns study is in its attention to Africana womanism (and the complex range of black feminist theory and third world feminisms), a genderationally contingent philosophical framework that helps us to understand the political import of black girlhood practices. (LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Sarah Lawrence College)<br /> Ruth Nicole Browns writing is poetry in motion. Girl empowerer and impresario of ethnographic education, she entertains readers, masterfully capturing the embodied knowledge, intellectual observations, and urban artistry of black girlhood. This work inspires, uplifts, and ultimately counters the usual mis-education of and about black girls in after-school programs and rap sessions about teenage pregnancy or sexual abuse (...). Social scientists, social workers, and cultural critics alike will love this. Brown takes the game of whats possible for academic studies to the next level. (Kyra D. Gaunt, Ethnomusicologist and Associate Professor of Music and Anthropology, Baruch College, City University of New York)
zlib_text: Epigraph
  Racists always try to make you think they are the majority, but they never
  are.
  —TONI MORRISON
  
  Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Epigraph
  Introduction: American Girls
  You Are Here
  For Colored Girls
  I Tried to Be Twitter Famous
  Tammy from HR
  No, My First Name Ain’t Whoopi
  Black Girl Magic
  Names for “Black” and What Year It Was
  Black Girl Hipster
  “Black Lives Matter” Yard Signs Matter
  Intraracial Dating
  Love Songs for Thots
  Cake Is Canceled
  Let Her Be Laughter
  Diana Ross Is Major
  Young, Drifted & Black
  & Just in Case You Forget Who I Am, I Am
  Acknowledgments
  Appendix
  About the Author
  Praise for This is Major
  
  Also by Shayla Lawson
  Copyright
  About the Publisher
  
  Introduction
  American Girls
  The summer of 1992, more than anything, my sister and I wanted American
  Girls. I was ten, my sister was six, and the dolls were the only thing en
  vogue for us, other than En Vogue. In the same way the R&B group
  represented what it meant for us to be proud, confident black women in
  mainstream America, 