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Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader, 2019
https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781433147142/chapter27.xhtml "Lauryn Hill’s celebrated album The... more https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781433147142/chapter27.xhtml
"Lauryn Hill’s celebrated album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill meaningfully reveals the shape and experience of Black girlhood in the United States. Over the course of the album, Hill generously takes the listener through her experiences of love, loss, grief, joy and growth, creating a polyphonic history of her life as a Black girl in New Jersey. With a sense of nostalgia, each song remembers Hill’s journey through girlhood and sites her knowledges of motherhood, sexuality, creativity and resistance. In particular, the track “Every Ghetto, Every City” takes the listener through space and time from Ivy Hill to Carter Park, Springfield Ave., and Martin Stadium. Miseducation draws our attention to the spatialization of Black girlhood and maps a soundscape of Hill’s Black girlhood home.
This chapter puts discussions of Black girls’ shapeshifting (Cox, 2015) into conversation with analyses of settler colonialism. These analyses help to make apparent the ways in which Black people have been constructed and dismissed as landless. By analyzing Black landlessness alongside the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their homelands within the settlement of North America, this chapter establishes connections to be built upon for future organizing and research."
Critical Ethnic Studies, 2016
Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader, 2019
https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781433147142/chapter27.xhtml "Lauryn Hill’s celebrated album The... more https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781433147142/chapter27.xhtml
"Lauryn Hill’s celebrated album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill meaningfully reveals the shape and experience of Black girlhood in the United States. Over the course of the album, Hill generously takes the listener through her experiences of love, loss, grief, joy and growth, creating a polyphonic history of her life as a Black girl in New Jersey. With a sense of nostalgia, each song remembers Hill’s journey through girlhood and sites her knowledges of motherhood, sexuality, creativity and resistance. In particular, the track “Every Ghetto, Every City” takes the listener through space and time from Ivy Hill to Carter Park, Springfield Ave., and Martin Stadium. Miseducation draws our attention to the spatialization of Black girlhood and maps a soundscape of Hill’s Black girlhood home.
This chapter puts discussions of Black girls’ shapeshifting (Cox, 2015) into conversation with analyses of settler colonialism. These analyses help to make apparent the ways in which Black people have been constructed and dismissed as landless. By analyzing Black landlessness alongside the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their homelands within the settlement of North America, this chapter establishes connections to be built upon for future organizing and research."
Critical Ethnic Studies, 2016