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Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship

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In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and believe lives for themselves. In accordance with eight years of fieldwork on the Fresh Start shelter, Cox shows how the shelter’s residents—who range in age from fifteen to 20-two—employ strategic methods she characterizes as choreography to disrupt the social hierarchies and prescriptive narratives that work to marginalize them. Among these are dance and poetry, which residents learn in shelter workshops. These outlets for performance and self-expression, Cox shows, are key to the residents exercising their agency, at the same time as their creation of alternative circle of relatives structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection, and love. Cox also uses these young women’s experiences to inform larger stories: of Detroit’s history, the Great Migration, deindustrialization, the politics of respectability, and the construction of Black women and girls as social problems. With Shapeshifters Cox gives a voice to young Black women who find creative and non-normative solutions to the problems that include being young, Black, and female in The usa.

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