LEADER 03303nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910974206503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781438433288 010 $a143843328X 010 $a9781441674166 010 $a1441674160 035 $a(CKB)2560000000067919 035 $a(OCoLC)670429703 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574019 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000420290 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11929587 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000420290 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10391734 035 $a(PQKB)10307869 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1725 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407158 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574019 035 $a(DE-B1597)682294 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438433288 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407158 035 $a(Perlego)2671689 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000067919 100 $a20100122d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImagining Black womanhood $ethe negotiation of power and identity within the Girls Empowerment Project /$fStephanie D. Sears 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (205 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781438433264 311 08$a1438433263 311 08$a9781438433271 311 08$a1438433271 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aGirls 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. 330 $aImagining Black Womanhood illuminates the experiences of the women and girls of the Girls Empowerment Project, an Afrocentric, womanist, single sex after-school program located in one of the Bay Area's largest and most impoverished housing developments. Stephanie Sears carefully examines the stakes of the complex negotiations of Black womanhood for both the girls served by the project and for the women who staffed it. Rather than a multigenerational alliance committed to women's and girls' empowerment, the women and girls often appeared to struggle against each other, with the girls' "politics of respect" often in conflict with the staff's "politics of respectability," a conflict especially highlighted in the public contexts of dance performances. This ground-breaking case study offers significant insights into practices of resistance, identity work, youth empowerment, cultural politics and organizational power. 606 $aWomanism$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican American girls 606 $aWomen, Black$zUnited States 606 $aIdentity (Philosophical concept) 615 0$aWomanism 615 0$aAfrican American girls. 615 0$aWomen, Black 615 0$aIdentity (Philosophical concept) 676 $a305.23089/96073 700 $aSears$b Stephanie D.$f1964-$01806730 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974206503321 996 $aImagining Black womanhood$94356073 997 $aUNINA