SOLHOT: black girlhood celebration of love, literacy, hip-hop and motherhood

Black girls;Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT);love practices;pedagogy

Lewis, Sheri ; Brown ; Ruth N.

关键词: Black girls;    Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT);    love practices;    pedagogy;   

Others  :  https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/44433/Sheri_Lewis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

美国|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

In order to create pedagogical methods and practices committed to educational attainment and healthy lifestyles one must recognize the impact of love as pedagogy. In my paper, I demonstrate how I utilize a concept I call “love practices” within a Black-girl-centered space entitled “Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths” (SOLHOT). When exploring the utility of love as practice among Black girls, in SOLHOT, at a local middle school in Champaign, Illinois, I ask the following: what is the relationship between love and Black girlhood? What is/are the impetus, motivation(s), and commitments of Black girls to a girl-centered space? What does it mean to be a part of a space for girls that foreground love? To assess Black girls in a context of love practices, I employ autoethnography, a method that permits me to openly discuss my experiences and research as self-reflective interpretations. My key findings, such as humility, listening, practice, imagining a critical space for Black girls, and recognizing complexities of love, are the critical lessons that have contributed to the process of organizing SOLHOT.