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Shapeshifters - Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Paperback)
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Shapeshifters - Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Paperback)
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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.
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