by lindaoppenheim | Mar 30, 2017 | Continuing Conversations, Opinion
Morgan Jerkins op ed in the New York Times (March 29, 2017) summarizes the aspects of the problem of missing African American and Latina girls. White mainstream media ignores this issue, devoting disproportionate coverage to white, upper middle-class women and...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Lewis Duiguid cites a recent study [Muhammad, G. E. & McArthur, S. A. (2015). “Styled by their perceptions”: Adolescent girls’ interpretations of Black girlhood in the media. Multicultural Perspectives, 17(3), 1-8.] that “shows how stereotypical media images...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 24, 2016 | Events, Uncategorized
Aimee Cox Shapeshifters: Black Girls & the Choreography of Citizenship Thursday, March 10, 2016 John Cotton Dana Library, 4th Floor 6:00-8:00PM Aimee Cox’s first book, “Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship,” explores how...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 22, 2016 | Events
Their voices, their struggles, even their data have been overlooked for years. Perhaps because overall, our nation’s girls are graduating from high school at higher rates than boys we can assume they are doing just fine, right? Wrong. For girls of color a...