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Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance - Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia (Paperback)
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Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance - Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia (Paperback)
Series: Intersectional Criminology
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Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for
Black Girls in Virginia provides a historical comprehensive
examination of racialized, classed, and gendered punishment of
Black girls in Virginia during the early twentieth century. It
looks at the ways in which the court system punished Black girls
based upon societal accepted norms of punishment, hinged on a
notion that they were to be viewed and treated as adults within the
criminal legal system. Further, the book explores the role of Black
Club women and girls as agents of resistance against injustice by
shaping a social justice framework and praxis for Black girls and
by examining the establishment of the Virginia Industrial School
for Colored Girls. This school was established by the Virginia
State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs and its first President,
Janie Porter Barrett. This book advances contemporary
criminological understanding of punishment by locating the
historical origins of an environment normalizing unequal justice.
It draws from a specific focus on Janie Porter Barrett and the
Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls; a groundbreaking
court case of the first female to be executed in Virginia;
historical newspapers; and Black Women's Club archives to highlight
the complexities of Black girls' experiences within the criminal
justice system and spaces created to promote social justice for
these girls. The historical approach unearths the justice system's
role in crafting the pervasive devaluation of Black girlhood
through racialized, gendered, and economic-based punishment.
Second, it offers insight into the ways in which, historically,
Black women have contributed to what the book conceptualizes as
"resistance criminology," offering policy implications for
transformative social and legal justice for Black girls and girls
of color impacted by violence and punishment. Finally, it offers a
lens to explore Black girl resistance strategies, through the lens
of the Black Girlhood Justice framework. Black Girlhood,
Punishment, and Resistance uses a historical intersectionality
framework to provide a comprehensive overview of cultural,
socioeconomic, and legal infrastructures as they relate to the
punishment of Black girls. The research illustrates how the
presumption of guilt of Black people shaped the ways that
punishment and the creation of deviant Black female identities were
legally sanctioned. It is essential reading for academics and
students researching and studying crime, criminal justice,
theoretical criminology, women's studies, Black girlhood studies,
history, gender, race, and socioeconomic class. It is also intended
for social justice organizations, community leaders, and activists
engaged in promoting social and legal justice for the youth.
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