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Shapeshifters
Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
Taschenbuch von Aimee Meredith Cox
Sprache: Englisch

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In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter, Cox shows how the shelter's residents-who range in age from fifteen to twenty-two-employ strategic methods she characterizes as choreography to disrupt the social hierarchies and prescriptive narratives that work to marginalize them. Among these are dance and poetry, which residents learn in shelter workshops. These outlets for performance and self-expression, Cox shows, are key to the residents exercising their agency, while their creation of alternative family structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection, and love. Cox also uses these young women's experiences to tell larger stories: of Detroit's history, the Great Migration, deindustrialization, the politics of respectability, and the construction of Black girls and women as social problems. With Shapeshifters Cox gives a voice to young Black women who find creative and non-normative solutions to the problems that come with being young, Black, and female in America.
In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter, Cox shows how the shelter's residents-who range in age from fifteen to twenty-two-employ strategic methods she characterizes as choreography to disrupt the social hierarchies and prescriptive narratives that work to marginalize them. Among these are dance and poetry, which residents learn in shelter workshops. These outlets for performance and self-expression, Cox shows, are key to the residents exercising their agency, while their creation of alternative family structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection, and love. Cox also uses these young women's experiences to tell larger stories: of Detroit's history, the Great Migration, deindustrialization, the politics of respectability, and the construction of Black girls and women as social problems. With Shapeshifters Cox gives a voice to young Black women who find creative and non-normative solutions to the problems that come with being young, Black, and female in America.
Über den Autor
Aimee Meredith Cox
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

Part I. Terrain

Introduction 3

1. "We Came Here to Be Different": The Brown Family and Remapping Detroit 38

Part II. Scripts

2. Renovations 81

3. Narratives of Protest and Play 122

Part III. Bodies

4. Sex, Gender, and Scripted Bodies 155

5. The Move Experiment 185

Epilogue 237

Notes 243

References 263

Index 273
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822359319
ISBN-10: 0822359316
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cox, Aimee Meredith
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Aimee Meredith Cox
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.08.2015
Gewicht: 0,435 kg
Artikel-ID: 105073172
Über den Autor
Aimee Meredith Cox
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

Part I. Terrain

Introduction 3

1. "We Came Here to Be Different": The Brown Family and Remapping Detroit 38

Part II. Scripts

2. Renovations 81

3. Narratives of Protest and Play 122

Part III. Bodies

4. Sex, Gender, and Scripted Bodies 155

5. The Move Experiment 185

Epilogue 237

Notes 243

References 263

Index 273
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822359319
ISBN-10: 0822359316
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cox, Aimee Meredith
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Aimee Meredith Cox
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.08.2015
Gewicht: 0,435 kg
Artikel-ID: 105073172
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