Imagining Black womanhood : the negotiation of power and identity within the Girls Empowerment Project / Stephanie D. Sears.

Show other versions (1)

"Imagining Black Womanhood illuminates the experiences of the women and girls of the Girls Empowerment Project, an Africentric, womanist, single-sex, after-school program located in one of the Bay Area's largest and most impoverished housing developments. Stephanie D. Sears carefully examines the st...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sears, Stephanie D., 1964-
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Womanism > United States.
African American girls.
Women, Black > United States.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Physical Description:xii, 189 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Girls Empowerment Project
  • Controlling "the urban girl"
  • GEP's culture of empowerment
  • GEP's organizational structure and power matrix
  • Africentric womanism meets decent girl femininity
  • Dance lessons
  • Conclusion : imagining Black womanhood, imagining social change.