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This volume examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space for the creative performance and expression of Black girlhood and how this creativity informs other realizations about Black girlhood and womanhood. Founded in 2006 and co-organized by the author, SOLHOT is an intergenerational collective organizing effort that celebrates and recognizes Black girls as producers of culture and knowledge. Girls discuss diverse expressions of Black girlhood, critique the issues that are important to them, and create art that keeps their lived experiences at its center. Drawing directly from her experiences in SOLHOT, Ruth Nicole Brown argues that when Black girls reflect on their own lives, they articulate radically unique ideas about their lived experiences. She documents the creative potential of Black girls and women who are working together to advance original theories, practices, and performances that affirm complexity, interrogate power, and produce humanizing representation of Black girls' lives. Emotionally and intellectually powerful, this book expands on the work of Black feminists and feminists of color and breaks intriguing new ground in Black feminist thought and methodology.

African American youth. --- African American young women. --- African American teenage girls. --- Afro-American teenage girls --- Teenage girls, African American --- Teenage girls --- Young women, African American --- Young women --- Afro-American youth --- Negro youth --- Youth, African American --- Youth --- Women --- Women, Black. --- Black women --- Women, Negro --- Social conditions.

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"In wrestling with the question, "What is a free life?" many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Beautifully written, Wayward Lives narrates the story of this radical transformation of black intimate and social life. It re-creates the experience of young black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them, and, for the first time, credits them with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives seeks to recover the radical aspirations and insurgent desires of these young women."--Provided by publisher.

African American young women --- Frau. --- HISTORY --- Man-woman relationships. --- Prostitution --- Prostitution. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Schwarze. --- Sex customs --- Sex customs. --- Sexualverhalten. --- Single women --- Soziale Situation. --- Urban women --- Sexual behavior --- History. --- Social conditions --- Women. --- History --- Ethnic Studies --- African American Studies. --- Sociology --- Urban. --- Women's Studies. --- Social conditions. --- 1800-1999. --- United States. --- Social problems --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- New York City --- Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] --- Man woman relationships.