Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood 1st Edition

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:

1. Black Girl Genius: The Histories
2. Speaking in Tongues
3. Jarena Lee: A Platypus in a Petticoat
4. Beloved Weirdo
5. The Birth of Ma
6. Ella Baker at the Ballot
7. “Never Grow Old”
8. Someone for Me
9. Only Boys Have Fans
10. Twice-Born Girl
11. What You Talking ‘Bout
12. Glutton
13. Those Sunless Summer Mornings
14. Hotter Than July
15. Sign o’ the Times
16. Grace for Be’la Dona
17. Dodge City Girls
18. Still Scary
19. How the Tongue Holds
20. Sage Poets and Popstars
21. Continuous Fire
22. In the Wilderness
23. Wasting Her Lips
24. Born Again and Again
25. Never Grow Old: Part Two
26. Gristle
27. In Search of the Colored Girl
28. The Gypsy Girl Gets No Solitude
29. Nevaeh Adams and Sharee Bradley (Nevaeh’s Mother)
30. Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney
31. For All of Birmingham’s Baby Girls
32. Aniah Blanchard
33. Dear Christians of Alabama
34. Anitra Gunn
35. Kimberly Grisham
36. Aziya Roberts #WeWalkForHer
37. The Psalm of TeNiya Jones
38. Homeroom
39. Tendayi’s Blues
40. Baiting Boys
41. New Year’s Day 2021

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