The Global History of Black Girlhood

Corinne T. Field is an associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America and coeditor of Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present. LaKisha Michelle Simmons is an associate professor of history and women's and gender studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans. Field and Simmons are cofounders of the History of Black Girlhood Network.

"An indispensable volume highlighting the histories of Black girls and girlhood." --Ms. Magazine "The essays collected in The Global History of Black Girlhood are groundbreaking, delivering history lessons with present-day implications." --Foreword Reviews "What we now have is a book that interrogates how we find black girls, focusing on sources, epistemology, and scholarship. The editors have created a volume that expresses the full spectrum of black girl humanity--the repression and oppression with the joy and moments of pleasure. A foundational anthology in an emerging field."--Francoise N. Hamlin, author of Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II