Teaching Black Girlhood Studies with Black Motherhood Studies: An Autoethnography. Issue 3 (1st December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ferdinand, Renata
• Is Part Of: Girlhood studies. Volume 15:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 52
• Page End: 66
• Publication Date: 2022-12-01
• Subjects: Black feminist -- daughters -- novels -- poems -- reading -- invisibility -- writers; Girls -- Periodicals; Girls -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Girls -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Girls -- Education -- Periodicals; Girls -- Sexual behavior -- Periodicals; Girls -- Health and hygiene -- Periodicals; Women's studies -- Periodicals; 305.23082
• DOI: 10.3167/ghs.2022.150306
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1938-8209

Abstract

Abstract: What is the relationship between Black Girlhood Studies and Black Motherhood Studies? In this article I answer this question by considering the ways in which these subjects can be explored together or in relation to each other. Using autoethnography, I describe the process of teaching Black Girlhood Studies with Black Motherhood Studies. Specifically, through narrative and performative writing, I draw upon my own personal experience of using research and scholarship associated with Black Girlhood Studies to inform and provide a foundation for the exploration of Black Motherhood Studies in an effort to promote a fuller, more complete and nuanced understanding of both social positions.