In The Wake: Black Girl Lessons on Collective Care

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In The Wake: Black Girl Lessons on Collective Care

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Author(s): Aja Reynolds ¹

Publication date (Print): 14 October 2022

Journal: Journal of Intersectionality

Keywords: Black girlhood, antiBlackness, collective care, Black geographies

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Abstract

This article centers Black girl leadership as a survival guide in this unprecedented moment of combating two pandemics, Covid-19 and extrajudicial killings of Black people. I recall lessons learned during my ethnographic research with Black girls in Chicago in which loss and grieving was often and premature. This piece is a response to Christina Sharpe’s “wake work” conceptualization that challenges the collective care Black people specifically must engage both with our living and dead.

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Title: Journal of Intersectionality

ISSN: 2515-2122

Publication date (Print): 14 October 2022

Volume: 5

Issue: 1

Pages: 18-27

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[1 ] Wayne State University

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DOI: 10.13169/jinte.5.1.0003

SO-VID: 67c19fc2-860e-42c2-aecf-5962395d52ce

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Education,Sociology,Political science,Social & Behavioral Sciences,Cultural studies

Keywords: Black girlhood,antiBlackness,collective care,Black geographies

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[1] Cox Aimee Meredith. Shapeshifters. 2015. Duke University Press. [Cross Ref]

[2] Crenshaw Kimberle. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review. Vol. 43(6)1991. JSTOR. [Cross Ref]

[3] Dillard Cynthia B.. Turning the Ships Around: A Case Study of (Re)Membering as Transnational Endarkened Feminist Inquiry and Praxis for Black Teachers. Educational Studies. Vol. 52(5):406–423. 2016. Informa UK Limited. [Cross Ref]

[4] Spillers Hortense J.. Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book. Diacritics. Vol. 17(2)1987. JSTOR. [Cross Ref]