Article Title
Magical Black Girls in the Education Industrial Complex: Making Visible the Wounds of Invisibility
Keywords
Black girls, school to prison pipeline, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, intersectionality, zero tolerance disciplinary policies
Document Type
Article in Response to Controversy
Abstract
Black girls in public school are constantly exposed to physical violence, racialized gender hostility and harassment, and hate speech. Yet, the national narrative perpetuates the belief that Black boys are the main targets of such behaviors. This narrative renders Black girls invisible, and normalizes their treatment as another beam in the framework of white supremacy. This article addresses Black girls' invisibility first creatively, though the African diasporic rhetorical practice of storytelling. It then turns to an exploration of Fennell v. Marion Independent School District, where three sisters were subjected to a racially hostile educational environment in Marion, TX. The article concludes with a positive imagining of how visibility can work to make Black Girls' Lives Matter.
Genre/Form
articles
Recommended Citation
McMurtry-Chubb, Teri A.
(2017)
"Magical Black Girls in the Education Industrial Complex: Making Visible the Wounds of Invisibility,"
Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 12:
No.
1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol12/iss1/12
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
African American girls--Violence against--United States; African American women--Violence against--United States; African American girls--Education--United States; African American women--Education--United States; Discrimination in education--United States
Rights
All rights reserved. Copyright 2018 Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb
Geographic Coverage
United States
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Type
Text
Included in
African American Studies Commons, Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Education Commons, Fiction Commons, Law and Gender Commons, Law and Race Commons, Women's Studies Commons