Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls
Bola Delano-Oriaran
- St. Norbert College
Marguerite W. Penick-Parks
- University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Shemariah J. Arki
- Kent State University
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Be a part of the radical transformation to honor and respect Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls!
This book is a collective call to action for educational justice and fairness for all Black Girls – Beautiful, Brilliant. This edited volume focuses on transforming how Black Girls are understood, respected, and taught. Editors and authors intentionally present the harrowing experiences Black Girls endure and provide readers with an understanding of Black Girls’ beauty, talents, and brilliance.
This book calls willing and knowledgeable educators to disrupt and transform their learning spaces by presenting:
- Detailed chapters rooted in scholarship, lived experiences, and practice
- Activities, recommendations, shorter personal narratives, and poetry honoring Black Girls
- Resources centering Black female protagonists
- Companion videos illustrating first-hand experiences of Black Girls and women
- Tools in authentically connecting with Black Girls so they can do more than survive – they can thrive.
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
Libation
- Introduction. Black Girls are Beautiful and Brilliant
UNDERSTANDING
UNDERSTANDING
I. “Black people I love you, I love us, Our Lives Matter” - Alicia Garza #BlackLivesMatter
- CH1. Black “Girls” are Different not Deficient
- Vignette: Black Girl Got Magic
- Vignette: It Takes A Village: Black Girl Physician, Black Girl Scientist
- CH2. Black, Beautiful, and Brilliant: It Takes A Village, Counter Safe Spaces for Black Super Girls
- Vignette: Ode to the Black Woman High School Student
- CH3. A Systemic Response to Creating a School Where Black Girls Can Thrive
- Book Review: Hey, Black Child
II. “Nah” - Harriet Tubman: Stereotypes and Tropes
- Vignette: Where Does the Sapphire Caricature Come From?
- CH4. My Eloquent, Angry, Black Rage
- CH5. The Right Kind of Black Girl
- CH6. Colorism in the Classroom
- Vignette: The Token Tax
III. “Spirit Murdering” - Bettina Love
- CH7. Visible Black Girls... Powerful Beyond Measure
- Vignette: You Murdered my Rhythm and Blues: Black Girls Still Got Magic
- CH8. Why Does My Darkness Blind You? Abandoning Racist Teaching Practices
- Book Review: Genesis Begins Again
- CH9. Finding My Armor of Self-Love
- Vignette: Black Student, White Teacher
IV. “Reclaiming My Time” - Maxine Waters
- CH10. Girls in the School to Prison Pipeline: Implications of History, Policy, and Race
- CH11. How Dare you Be Brilliant: Precarious Situation for Black Girls
- CH12. Girl Trafficking Misunderstood: Understanding The Commercially Sexually Exploited African American Girl
- Vignette: Black Girls Trapped in Our Foster Care System
- Vignette: My Transracial Adoption Experience: Being Seen and Not Seen At All
- Vignette: Know Your Body, Sis
- CH13. Little Black Girls with Curves
- Vignette: Fat, Black, and Female
V. “Your Silence is a Knee on My Neck” - Natasha Cloud
- CH14. Whiteness Competency: How Not to Be BBQ Becky
- Vignette: Keisha Resists Karen
- CH15. Can I do this if I’m White?: How White Educators can be the Teachers their Black Girl Students Deserve
- CH16. Not Knowing and Not Controlling: Learning Alongside Black Girl Students
- Vignette: Confessions of a White Teacher: Seven Ways I Failed Beautiful and Brilliant Black Girls
- Vignette: Humbling Feedback
- Vignette: Is This the Solidarity I Seek?
- CH17. Not in Our Name: Fierce Allyship for White Women
- Vignette: The Culture Walk
- CH18. White Teachers, Black Girls, and White Fragility
VI. “Give light and people will find the way.” – Ella Baker
- Vignette: Dear, Dear, Dear!
- CH19. A Reimagined Pedagogy of Affirmation and Artistic Practices
- Vignette: Infinitely Crowned
RESPECTING
RESPECTING
I. “I’ll be Bossy and Damn Proud” - Rosa Clemente
- CH20. Who are Black Girls: An Intersectional Herstory of Feminism
- Book Review: Crossing Ebenezer Creek
- Vignette: This Is What a (Pan)African Feminist Looks Like
- CH21. Navigating Multiple Identities: The Black Immigrant Girl Experience
- Vignette: It should have been all of us, together, against the system: Latinidad, Blackness, and Queer Identity
- CH22. Yes! Black girls are genderqueerand transgender, too!
- CH23. Prismatic Black Girls Reflecting African Spiritualities in Learning Environments
- Book Review: Pet
II. “I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now” - Michelle Obama
- CH24. Black Girl in the Playground
- Vignette: Who’s Going to Sing A Black Girl’s Song
- Vignette: My Black, My Beautiful, My Brilliant
- CH25. Black Girls Voices Matter: Empowering the Voices of Black Girls against Co-opting and Colonization
III. “Don’t Touch My Hair” - Solange
- CH26. She Wears a Crown: Centering Black Girlhood in Schools
- CH27. I am Not My Hair
- Vignette: Covered Girls
- Book Review: I’m Enough
IV. “We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers” - Tarana Burke
- Vignette: Mirror, Mirror
- CH28. Voice Activation and Volume Control in the Workplace
- Vignette: Black Girls Say #MeToo
V. “Freedom is a Constant Struggle” - Angela Davis
- CH29. When She is the Only One: High Achieving Black Girls in Suburban Schools
- CH30. Liminal and Limitless: Black Girls in Independent Schools
- Vignette: A Black Woman Who Attended a Predominantly White School Returns to Teach Black Girls in Predominantly White Schools
- Book Review: A Good Kind of Trouble
VI. “Dreamkeepers” - Gloria Ladson Billings
- CH31. Mrs. Ruby Middleton Forsythe (Miss Ruby): The Power of Sankofa
- Vignette: • A Black Woman's Reflections on the Road I Made While Walking:Remarks from My Retirement Ceremony
- Book Review: Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
CONNECTING
CONNECTING
I. “Such As I Am, A Precious Gift” - Zora Neale Hurston
- CH32. Black Girls Got it Goin’ On
- Vignette: Black Girls Are Precious Gifts: Educators Don't Be Kryptonite
- Vignette: Dear Mr. Guillen
- Vignette: So you Wanted to See the Wizard
- CH33. Learning to Listen to Her: Psychological Verve with Black Girls
- Vignette: Creating Safe Spaces for Black Queer Girls
- Vignette: Being a Trans Black Girl
II. #1000BlackGirlBooks - Marley Dias
- CH34. Selecting and Using BACE (Blackcentric, Authentic, and Culturally Engaging) Books: She Looks Like Me
- CH35. Hair Representation Matters: Selecting Children’s Books for Black Girls
- Book Review: The Night Is Yours
- CH36. Teaching Reading to Beautiful and Brilliant and Black Girls: Building a Strong Culture of Engagement
- Book Review: Children of Blood and Bones
III. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing” - Audre Lorde
- CH37. Black Girl Sisterhood as Resilience And Resistance
- CH38. Respect Black Girls: Prioritize, Embrace and Value
- CH39. Understanding the Intersecting Identities of Black Girls
- Vignette: Just Educational Ecosystems for Black Girls: Educators, here are 8 ways you can support Black Muslim Girls during the School year
- Vignette: The Skin I’m in
- CH40. #StudentAsSignMaker: Curating Classrooms For Identity Development
- Vignette: Beautiful, Brilliant, Black and Deaf
- CH41. Black Men Teaching Beautiful and Brilliant Black Girls: Resisting Patriarchal and Sexist Socializations
- Vignette: Paragon Project: The Transformative Power of HipHop Education To Save Lives
- Vignette: I Wish You Believed in Magic
- CH42. Black Girl Magic: Beauty, Brilliance, and Coming to Voice in the Classroom
IV. “Perseverance is my motto” -Madam C. J. Walker
- CH43. Listen to Her!: Black Girls Constructing Activist Identities in a School-Based Leadership Program
- Vignette: Black Girls as Leaders
- CH44. When You Imagine a Scientist, Technologist, Engineer, Artist or Mathematician, Imagine A Black Girl
- Book Review: Slay
- Vignette: Did I Even Matter?
- CH45. Developing an Ethics of Engaging Black Girls in Digital Spaces
- CH46. A Matter of Media: Cultural Appropriation and Expectations of Black Girls
- CH47. "Catch This Magic”: How Schools Get in the Way of Gifted Black Girls
V. “Be thankful that you've been given that gift because [Black] girls are amazing” - Kobe Bryant
- Vignette: Black Girls Own Their Future
- Book Review: Juneteenth - For Mazie
- Vignette:Love Letter to My Dazzling, Darling Daughters
- Vignette: Love letter
- Vignette: Lioness to Bee: A Love Letter to the Pride!
- Vignette: Anyia
VI. “We Will Fight Till the Last of Us Falls in the Battlefield” - Nana Yaa Asanatewaa, Queenmother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, Ghana
- Vignette: A Mother of the Movement Speaks Out
- CH48. Motherwork as Pedagogy
- Vignette: Jenga: The Game Single Mothers Play in the World of Academia
- Vignette: Black Girl Fears Motherhood
- Vignette: Dear Bayje
- Vignette: A Love Letter to My Daughter Alyse
- Vignette: Diamonds: Black, Beautiful, Brilliant
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/TBBBGDescription
Be a part of the radical transformation to honor and respect Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls!
This book is a collective call to action for educational justice and fairness for all Black Girls – Beautiful, Brilliant. This edited volume focuses on transforming how Black Girls are understood, respected, and taught. Editors and authors intentionally present the harrowing experiences Black Girls endure and provide readers with an understanding of Black Girls’ beauty, talents, and brilliance.
This book calls willing and knowledgeable educators to disrupt and transform their learning spaces by presenting:
- Detailed chapters rooted in scholarship, lived experiences, and practice
- Activities, recommendations, shorter personal narratives, and poetry honoring Black Girls
- Resources centering Black female protagonists
- Companion videos illustrating first-hand experiences of Black Girls and women
- Tools in authentically connecting with Black Girls so they can do more than survive – they can thrive.
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
Libation
- Introduction. Black Girls are Beautiful and Brilliant
UNDERSTANDING
UNDERSTANDING
I. “Black people I love you, I love us, Our Lives Matter” - Alicia Garza #BlackLivesMatter
- CH1. Black “Girls” are Different not Deficient
- Vignette: Black Girl Got Magic
- Vignette: It Takes A Village: Black Girl Physician, Black Girl Scientist
- CH2. Black, Beautiful, and Brilliant: It Takes A Village, Counter Safe Spaces for Black Super Girls
- Vignette: Ode to the Black Woman High School Student
- CH3. A Systemic Response to Creating a School Where Black Girls Can Thrive
- Book Review: Hey, Black Child
II. “Nah” - Harriet Tubman: Stereotypes and Tropes
- Vignette: Where Does the Sapphire Caricature Come From?
- CH4. My Eloquent, Angry, Black Rage
- CH5. The Right Kind of Black Girl
- CH6. Colorism in the Classroom
- Vignette: The Token Tax
III. “Spirit Murdering” - Bettina Love
- CH7. Visible Black Girls... Powerful Beyond Measure
- Vignette: You Murdered my Rhythm and Blues: Black Girls Still Got Magic
- CH8. Why Does My Darkness Blind You? Abandoning Racist Teaching Practices
- Book Review: Genesis Begins Again
- CH9. Finding My Armor of Self-Love
- Vignette: Black Student, White Teacher
IV. “Reclaiming My Time” - Maxine Waters
- CH10. Girls in the School to Prison Pipeline: Implications of History, Policy, and Race
- CH11. How Dare you Be Brilliant: Precarious Situation for Black Girls
- CH12. Girl Trafficking Misunderstood: Understanding The Commercially Sexually Exploited African American Girl
- Vignette: Black Girls Trapped in Our Foster Care System
- Vignette: My Transracial Adoption Experience: Being Seen and Not Seen At All
- Vignette: Know Your Body, Sis
- CH13. Little Black Girls with Curves
- Vignette: Fat, Black, and Female
V. “Your Silence is a Knee on My Neck” - Natasha Cloud
- CH14. Whiteness Competency: How Not to Be BBQ Becky
- Vignette: Keisha Resists Karen
- CH15. Can I do this if I’m White?: How White Educators can be the Teachers their Black Girl Students Deserve
- CH16. Not Knowing and Not Controlling: Learning Alongside Black Girl Students
- Vignette: Confessions of a White Teacher: Seven Ways I Failed Beautiful and Brilliant Black Girls
- Vignette: Humbling Feedback
- Vignette: Is This the Solidarity I Seek?
- CH17. Not in Our Name: Fierce Allyship for White Women
- Vignette: The Culture Walk
- CH18. White Teachers, Black Girls, and White Fragility
VI. “Give light and people will find the way.” – Ella Baker
- Vignette: Dear, Dear, Dear!
- CH19. A Reimagined Pedagogy of Affirmation and Artistic Practices
- Vignette: Infinitely Crowned
RESPECTING
RESPECTING
I. “I’ll be Bossy and Damn Proud” - Rosa Clemente
- CH20. Who are Black Girls: An Intersectional Herstory of Feminism
- Book Review: Crossing Ebenezer Creek
- Vignette: This Is What a (Pan)African Feminist Looks Like
- CH21. Navigating Multiple Identities: The Black Immigrant Girl Experience
- Vignette: It should have been all of us, together, against the system: Latinidad, Blackness, and Queer Identity
- CH22. Yes! Black girls are genderqueerand transgender, too!
- CH23. Prismatic Black Girls Reflecting African Spiritualities in Learning Environments
- Book Review: Pet
II. “I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now” - Michelle Obama
- CH24. Black Girl in the Playground
- Vignette: Who’s Going to Sing A Black Girl’s Song
- Vignette: My Black, My Beautiful, My Brilliant
- CH25. Black Girls Voices Matter: Empowering the Voices of Black Girls against Co-opting and Colonization
III. “Don’t Touch My Hair” - Solange
- CH26. She Wears a Crown: Centering Black Girlhood in Schools
- CH27. I am Not My Hair
- Vignette: Covered Girls
- Book Review: I’m Enough
IV. “We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers” - Tarana Burke
- Vignette: Mirror, Mirror
- CH28. Voice Activation and Volume Control in the Workplace
- Vignette: Black Girls Say #MeToo
V. “Freedom is a Constant Struggle” - Angela Davis
- CH29. When She is the Only One: High Achieving Black Girls in Suburban Schools
- CH30. Liminal and Limitless: Black Girls in Independent Schools
- Vignette: A Black Woman Who Attended a Predominantly White School Returns to Teach Black Girls in Predominantly White Schools
- Book Review: A Good Kind of Trouble
VI. “Dreamkeepers” - Gloria Ladson Billings
- CH31. Mrs. Ruby Middleton Forsythe (Miss Ruby): The Power of Sankofa
- Vignette: • A Black Woman's Reflections on the Road I Made While Walking:Remarks from My Retirement Ceremony
- Book Review: Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
CONNECTING
CONNECTING
I. “Such As I Am, A Precious Gift” - Zora Neale Hurston
- CH32. Black Girls Got it Goin’ On
- Vignette: Black Girls Are Precious Gifts: Educators Don't Be Kryptonite
- Vignette: Dear Mr. Guillen
- Vignette: So you Wanted to See the Wizard
- CH33. Learning to Listen to Her: Psychological Verve with Black Girls
- Vignette: Creating Safe Spaces for Black Queer Girls
- Vignette: Being a Trans Black Girl
II. #1000BlackGirlBooks - Marley Dias
- CH34. Selecting and Using BACE (Blackcentric, Authentic, and Culturally Engaging) Books: She Looks Like Me
- CH35. Hair Representation Matters: Selecting Children’s Books for Black Girls
- Book Review: The Night Is Yours
- CH36. Teaching Reading to Beautiful and Brilliant and Black Girls: Building a Strong Culture of Engagement
- Book Review: Children of Blood and Bones
III. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing” - Audre Lorde
- CH37. Black Girl Sisterhood as Resilience And Resistance
- CH38. Respect Black Girls: Prioritize, Embrace and Value
- CH39. Understanding the Intersecting Identities of Black Girls
- Vignette: Just Educational Ecosystems for Black Girls: Educators, here are 8 ways you can support Black Muslim Girls during the School year
- Vignette: The Skin I’m in
- CH40. #StudentAsSignMaker: Curating Classrooms For Identity Development
- Vignette: Beautiful, Brilliant, Black and Deaf
- CH41. Black Men Teaching Beautiful and Brilliant Black Girls: Resisting Patriarchal and Sexist Socializations
- Vignette: Paragon Project: The Transformative Power of HipHop Education To Save Lives
- Vignette: I Wish You Believed in Magic
- CH42. Black Girl Magic: Beauty, Brilliance, and Coming to Voice in the Classroom
IV. “Perseverance is my motto” -Madam C. J. Walker
- CH43. Listen to Her!: Black Girls Constructing Activist Identities in a School-Based Leadership Program
- Vignette: Black Girls as Leaders
- CH44. When You Imagine a Scientist, Technologist, Engineer, Artist or Mathematician, Imagine A Black Girl
- Book Review: Slay
- Vignette: Did I Even Matter?
- CH45. Developing an Ethics of Engaging Black Girls in Digital Spaces
- CH46. A Matter of Media: Cultural Appropriation and Expectations of Black Girls
- CH47. "Catch This Magic”: How Schools Get in the Way of Gifted Black Girls
V. “Be thankful that you've been given that gift because [Black] girls are amazing” - Kobe Bryant
- Vignette: Black Girls Own Their Future
- Book Review: Juneteenth - For Mazie
- Vignette:Love Letter to My Dazzling, Darling Daughters
- Vignette: Love letter
- Vignette: Lioness to Bee: A Love Letter to the Pride!
- Vignette: Anyia
VI. “We Will Fight Till the Last of Us Falls in the Battlefield” - Nana Yaa Asanatewaa, Queenmother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, Ghana
- Vignette: A Mother of the Movement Speaks Out
- CH48. Motherwork as Pedagogy
- Vignette: Jenga: The Game Single Mothers Play in the World of Academia
- Vignette: Black Girl Fears Motherhood
- Vignette: Dear Bayje
- Vignette: A Love Letter to My Daughter Alyse
- Vignette: Diamonds: Black, Beautiful, Brilliant
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/TBBBGReviews
Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls
Bola Delano-Oriaran
,
Marguerite W. Penick-Parks
,
Shemariah J. Arki
,
Ali Michael
,
Orinthia Swindell
,
Eddie Moore
March 2021 | 584 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781544376998 | $40.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781544394411 | $37.00 |
Be a part of the radical transformation to honor and respect Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls!
This book is a collective call to action for educational justice and fairness for all Black Girls – Beautiful, Brilliant. This edited volume focuses on transforming how Black Girls are understood, respected, and taught. Editors and authors intentionally present the harrowing experiences Black Girls endure and provide readers with an understanding of Black Girls’ beauty, talents, and brilliance.
This book calls willing and knowledgeable educators to disrupt and transform their learning spaces by presenting:
- Detailed chapters rooted in scholarship, lived experiences, and practice
- Activities, recommendations, shorter personal narratives, and poetry honoring Black Girls
- Resources centering Black female protagonists
- Companion videos illustrating first-hand experiences of Black Girls and women
- Tools in authentically connecting with Black Girls so they can do more than survive – they can thrive.
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Libation
- Introduction. Black Girls are Beautiful and Brilliant
- UNDERSTANDING
- I. “Black people I love you, I love us, Our Lives Matter” - Alicia Garza #BlackLivesMatter
- CH1. Black “Girls” are Different not Deficient
- Vignette: Black Girl Got Magic
- Vignette: It Takes A Village: Black Girl Physician, Black Girl Scientist
- CH2. Black, Beautiful, and Brilliant: It Takes A Village, Counter Safe Spaces for Black Super Girls
- Vignette: Ode to the Black Woman High School Student
- CH3. A Systemic Response to Creating a School Where Black Girls Can Thrive
- Book Review: Hey, Black Child
- II. “Nah” - Harriet Tubman: Stereotypes and Tropes
- Vignette: Where Does the Sapphire Caricature Come From?
- CH4. My Eloquent, Angry, Black Rage
- CH5. The Right Kind of Black Girl
- CH6. Colorism in the Classroom
- Vignette: The Token Tax
- III. “Spirit Murdering” - Bettina Love
- CH7. Visible Black Girls... Powerful Beyond Measure
- Vignette: You Murdered my Rhythm and Blues: Black Girls Still Got Magic
- CH8. Why Does My Darkness Blind You? Abandoning Racist Teaching Practices
- Book Review: Genesis Begins Again
- CH9. Finding My Armor of Self-Love
- Vignette: Black Student, White Teacher
- IV. “Reclaiming My Time” - Maxine Waters
- CH10. Girls in the School to Prison Pipeline: Implications of History, Policy, and Race
- CH11. How Dare you Be Brilliant: Precarious Situation for Black Girls
- CH12. Girl Trafficking Misunderstood: Understanding The Commercially Sexually Exploited African American Girl
- Vignette: Black Girls Trapped in Our Foster Care System
- Vignette: My Transracial Adoption Experience: Being Seen and Not Seen At All
- Vignette: Know Your Body, Sis
- CH13. Little Black Girls with Curves
- Vignette: Fat, Black, and Female
- V. “Your Silence is a Knee on My Neck” - Natasha Cloud
- CH14. Whiteness Competency: How Not to Be BBQ Becky
- Vignette: Keisha Resists Karen
- CH15. Can I do this if I’m White?: How White Educators can be the Teachers their Black Girl Students Deserve
- CH16. Not Knowing and Not Controlling: Learning Alongside Black Girl Students
- Vignette: Confessions of a White Teacher: Seven Ways I Failed Beautiful and Brilliant Black Girls
- Vignette: Humbling Feedback
- Vignette: Is This the Solidarity I Seek?
- CH17. Not in Our Name: Fierce Allyship for White Women
- Vignette: The Culture Walk
- CH18. White Teachers, Black Girls, and White Fragility
- VI. “Give light and people will find the way.” – Ella Baker
- Vignette: Dear, Dear, Dear!
- CH19. A Reimagined Pedagogy of Affirmation and Artistic Practices
- Vignette: Infinitely Crowned
- RESPECTING
- I. “I’ll be Bossy and Damn Proud” - Rosa Clemente
- CH20. Who are Black Girls: An Intersectional Herstory of Feminism
- Book Review: Crossing Ebenezer Creek
- Vignette: This Is What a (Pan)African Feminist Looks Like
- CH21. Navigating Multiple Identities: The Black Immigrant Girl Experience
- Vignette: It should have been all of us, together, against the system: Latinidad, Blackness, and Queer Identity
- CH22. Yes! Black girls are genderqueerand transgender, too!
- CH23. Prismatic Black Girls Reflecting African Spiritualities in Learning Environments
- Book Review: Pet
- II. “I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now” - Michelle Obama
- CH24. Black Girl in the Playground
- Vignette: Who’s Going to Sing A Black Girl’s Song
- Vignette: My Black, My Beautiful, My Brilliant
- CH25. Black Girls Voices Matter: Empowering the Voices of Black Girls against Co-opting and Colonization
- III. “Don’t Touch My Hair” - Solange
- CH26. She Wears a Crown: Centering Black Girlhood in Schools
- CH27. I am Not My Hair
- Vignette: Covered Girls
- Book Review: I’m Enough
- IV. “We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers” - Tarana Burke
- Vignette: Mirror, Mirror
- CH28. Voice Activation and Volume Control in the Workplace
- Vignette: Black Girls Say #MeToo
- V. “Freedom is a Constant Struggle” - Angela Davis
- CH29. When She is the Only One: High Achieving Black Girls in Suburban Schools
- CH30. Liminal and Limitless: Black Girls in Independent Schools
- Vignette: A Black Woman Who Attended a Predominantly White School Returns to Teach Black Girls in Predominantly White Schools
- Book Review: A Good Kind of Trouble
- VI. “Dreamkeepers” - Gloria Ladson Billings
- CH31. Mrs. Ruby Middleton Forsythe (Miss Ruby): The Power of Sankofa
- Vignette: • A Black Woman's Reflections on the Road I Made While Walking:Remarks from My Retirement Ceremony
- Book Review: Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
- CONNECTING
- I. “Such As I Am, A Precious Gift” - Zora Neale Hurston
- CH32. Black Girls Got it Goin’ On
- Vignette: Black Girls Are Precious Gifts: Educators Don't Be Kryptonite
- Vignette: Dear Mr. Guillen
- Vignette: So you Wanted to See the Wizard
- CH33. Learning to Listen to Her: Psychological Verve with Black Girls
- Vignette: Creating Safe Spaces for Black Queer Girls
- Vignette: Being a Trans Black Girl
- II. #1000BlackGirlBooks - Marley Dias
- CH34. Selecting and Using BACE (Blackcentric, Authentic, and Culturally Engaging) Books: She Looks Like Me
- CH35. Hair Representation Matters: Selecting Children’s Books for Black Girls
- Book Review: The Night Is Yours
- CH36. Teaching Reading to Beautiful and Brilliant and Black Girls: Building a Strong Culture of Engagement
- Book Review: Children of Blood and Bones
- III. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing” - Audre Lorde
- CH37. Black Girl Sisterhood as Resilience And Resistance
- CH38. Respect Black Girls: Prioritize, Embrace and Value
- CH39. Understanding the Intersecting Identities of Black Girls
- Vignette: Just Educational Ecosystems for Black Girls: Educators, here are 8 ways you can support Black Muslim Girls during the School year
- Vignette: The Skin I’m in
- CH40. #StudentAsSignMaker: Curating Classrooms For Identity Development
- Vignette: Beautiful, Brilliant, Black and Deaf
- CH41. Black Men Teaching Beautiful and Brilliant Black Girls: Resisting Patriarchal and Sexist Socializations
- Vignette: Paragon Project: The Transformative Power of HipHop Education To Save Lives
- Vignette: I Wish You Believed in Magic
- CH42. Black Girl Magic: Beauty, Brilliance, and Coming to Voice in the Classroom
- IV. “Perseverance is my motto” -Madam C. J. Walker
- CH43. Listen to Her!: Black Girls Constructing Activist Identities in a School-Based Leadership Program
- Vignette: Black Girls as Leaders
- CH44. When You Imagine a Scientist, Technologist, Engineer, Artist or Mathematician, Imagine A Black Girl
- Book Review: Slay
- Vignette: Did I Even Matter?
- CH45. Developing an Ethics of Engaging Black Girls in Digital Spaces
- CH46. A Matter of Media: Cultural Appropriation and Expectations of Black Girls
- CH47. "Catch This Magic”: How Schools Get in the Way of Gifted Black Girls
- V. “Be thankful that you've been given that gift because [Black] girls are amazing” - Kobe Bryant
- Vignette: Black Girls Own Their Future
- Book Review: Juneteenth - For Mazie
- Vignette:Love Letter to My Dazzling, Darling Daughters
- Vignette: Love letter
- Vignette: Lioness to Bee: A Love Letter to the Pride!
- Vignette: Anyia
- VI. “We Will Fight Till the Last of Us Falls in the Battlefield” - Nana Yaa Asanatewaa, Queenmother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire, Ghana
- Vignette: A Mother of the Movement Speaks Out
- CH48. Motherwork as Pedagogy
- Vignette: Jenga: The Game Single Mothers Play in the World of Academia
- Vignette: Black Girl Fears Motherhood
- Vignette: Dear Bayje
- Vignette: A Love Letter to My Daughter Alyse
- Vignette: Diamonds: Black, Beautiful, Brilliant
Recent Product Reviews:
"Grounded in both research and practice and brought to life by personal narratives of students, teachers, and parents, Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls is an important pedagogical resource for all educators who want to empower rather than impede the holistic development of the Black girls in their classrooms. If you’re asking yourself, 'Do I need this book?' the answer is, 'Yes, you do.'"
Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, President Emerita, Spelman College, author of "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race"
"Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls is a timely and insightful volume that addresses the amazing diversity and complexity of Black girls and their triumphs and challenges. The editorial team led by Dr. Bola has assembled a stellar group of authors that bring us the essence of Black Girl Joy. This is a must-read and should be in the library of anybody who cares about doing right by Black girls."
Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Our Black girls deserve better! This wide-ranging anthology fills a big hole in the literature and joins those volumes emphasizing Black boys. Should be required reading for all teachers and administrators. Kudos to the distinguished editors."
Adrien K. Wing, Associate Dean, Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law