{"product_id":"celebrating-twenty-years-of-black-girlhood-the-lauryn-hill-reader-paperback","title":"Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVenus E. Evans-Winters\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eM. Billye Sankofa Waters\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor), \u003cb\u003eVenus Evans-Winters\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album \u003cem\u003eThe Miseducation of Lauryn Hill \u003c\/em\u003esold over 420,000 copies in its first week, received ten Grammy nominations (winning five). \u003cem\u003eCelebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader\u003c\/em\u003e critically engages the work of Ms. Hill, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the album\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eBeyond the album's commercial success, Ms. Hill's radical self-consciousness and exuberance for life led listeners through her Black girl journey of love, motherhood, admonition, redemption, spirituality, sexuality, politics, and nostalgia that affirmed the power of creativity, resistance, and the tradition of African storytelling. Ms. Hill's album provides inspirational energies that serve as a foundational text for Black girlhood. In many ways it is the definitive work of Black girlhood for the Hip Hop generation and beyond because it opened our eyes to a holistic narrative of woman and mother. Twenty years after the release of the album, we pay tribute to this work by adding to the quilt of Black girls' stories with the threads of feminist consciousness, which are particularly imperative in this space where we declare: Black girls matter. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCelebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to academically engage the work of the incomparable Ms. Hill. It intellectually wrestles with the interdisciplinary nature of Ms. Hill's album, centering the connection between the music of Ms. Hill and the lives of Black girls. The essays in this collection utilize personal narratives and professional pedagogies and invite students, scholars, and readers to reflect on how Ms. Hill's album influenced their past, present, and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eM. Billye Sankofa Waters\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Teaching Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Northeastern University. Her research interests include sociology of education, Black feminism, critical race theory, and qualitative inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eVenus E. Evans-Winters is Associate Professor of Education at Illinois State University in the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations. Her research interests are school resilience, urban education policy and reform, and the schooling of Black girls and women across the Diaspora. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBettina L. Love is Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the ways in which urban youth negotiate Hip Hop music and culture to form social, cultural, and political identities to create new and sustaining ways of thinking about urban education and intersectional social justice. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 332\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 17, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666184200236,"sku":"9781433147166","price":101.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/0954\/5772\/files\/30h3CC5jOj9781433147166.webp?v=1781623305","url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/celebrating-twenty-years-of-black-girlhood-the-lauryn-hill-reader-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}