'Black Girlhood Celebration'

The Laura C. Harris Series welcomes author Ruth Nichole Brown presenting “The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood: A Performance Lecture.” Brown is assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies & Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research documents, analyzes, and interrogates Black girls’ lived experiences as it intersects with cultural constructions of Black girlhood. Her first book, Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward A Hip Hop Feminist Pedagogy counters the invisibility of Black girls and the marginalization of Black girlhood in academic literature.