Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood

by Ruth Nicole Brown

Book Overview

This volume examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this creativity informs other realizations about Black girlhood and womanhood. Founded in 2006 and co-organized by the author, SOLHOT is an intergenerational collective organizing effort that celebrates and recognizes Black girls as producers of culture and knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079493
• ISBN13: 9780252079498
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"