Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship

by Aimee Meredith Cox

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822359316
• ISBN13: 9780822359319
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"