Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781635576627,1635576628
Product details:
- ISBN-10: 1635576628
- ISBN-13: 9781635576627
- Author: DaMaris Hill
In Breath Better Spent, DaMaris B. Hill hoists her childhood self onto her shoulders, together taking in the landscape of Black girlhood in America. At a time when Black girls across the country are increasingly vulnerable to unjust violence, unwarranted incarceration, and unnoticed disappearance, Hill chooses to celebrate and protect the girl she carries, using the narrative-in-verse style of her acclaimed book A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing to revisit her youth. There, jelly sandals, Double Dutch beats, and chipped nail polish bring the breath of laughter; in adolescence, pomegranate lips, turntables, and love letters to other girls’ boyfriends bring the breath of longing. Yet these breaths cannot be taken alone, and as she carries her childhood self through the broader historical space of Black girls in America, Hill is forced to grapple with expression in a space of stereotype, desire in a space of hyper-sexuality, joy in a space of heartache.
Table contents:
- Black Girl Genius: The Histories
- Speaking in Tongues
- Jarena Lee: A Platypus in a Petticoat
- Beloved Weirdo
- The Birth of Ma
- Ella Baker at the Ballot
- “Never Grow Old”
- Someone for Me
- Only Boys Have Fans
- Twice-Born Girl
- What You Talking ‘Bout
- Glutton
- Those Sunless Summer Mornings
- Hotter Than July
- Sign o’ the Times
- Grace for Be’la Dona
- Dodge City Girls
- Still Scary
- How the Tongue Holds
- Sage Poets and Popstars
- Continuous Fire
- In the Wilderness
- Wasting Her Lips
- Born Again and Again
- Never Grow Old: Part Two
- Gristle
- In Search of the Colored Girl
- The Gypsy Girl Gets No Solitude
- Nevaeh Adams and Sharee Bradley (Nevaeh’s Mother)
- Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney
- For All of Birmingham’s Baby Girls
- Aniah Blanchard
- Dear Christians of Alabama
- Anitra Gunn
- Kimberly Grisham
- Aziya Roberts #WeWalkForHer
- The Psalm of TeNiya Jones
- Homeroom
- Tendayi’s Blues
- Baiting Boys
- New Year’s Day 2021
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