Coming of (R)age: A New Genre for Contemporary Narratives about Black Girlhood

In this talk, Dr. Lashon Daley argues that Black girls do not come of age in mediated representations of girlhood due to the ways in which the historic traumas of slavery, civil rights, and racial formation have adulterated how their age, rates of physical maturation, and social development are constructed and perceived. Rather, they come of (r)age. In this talk, Dr. Daley discusses how she uses text mining software to investigate whether coming of (r)age is purely a theoretical framework or if there is also quantitative data to support her claim.

 

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Event sponsored by Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Co-Sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum