Supporting 5th-12th Grade Black Girls in Community-Based Educational Spaces References

Supporting 5th-12th Grade Black Girls in Community-Based Educational Spaces(opens in new tab) is the dissertation written by Dr. Debralyn Woodberry-Shaw, executive director of ELIE Circle LLC. This is the list of books & book chapters she cited in her dissertation and the book with the chapter she co-authored based on the dissertation.

Akiva, T., & Robinson, K. H. (2022). It takes an ecosystem: Understanding the people, places, and possibilities of learning and development across settings. Information Age Publishing, Inc.

• Chapters: (1) Using a learning and development ecosystem framework to advance the youth fields by Akiva, T., Hecht, M., & Blyth, D. A. (pp. 13-36); (2) Mattering in allied youth fields: Summoning the call of Black Lives Matter to radically affirm youth through programming by Carey, R. L, Polanco, C., & Blackman, H. (pp. 67-86)

Apugo, D., Mawhinney, L., & Mbilishaka, A. (2021), Strong Black girls: Reclaiming schools in their own image. Teachers College Press.

• Chapters: (1) Colors outside the lines: Recollections and reflections on Black girlhood by Yates, N. (pp. 32-51); (2) Curls, coils, and codes: An examination of Black girls' hair as a form of expression and resistance by Kaler-Jones, C (pp. 61-78); (3) The trouble with Black Girl Magic for Black girls by Adams-Bass, V. N., & Bentley-Edwards, K. L. (pp. 99-117)

Baker-Bell, A. (2020). Linguistic justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. Routledge.

Brown, R. N. (2009). Black girlhood celebration: Toward a hip-hop feminist pedagogy. Peter Lang.

Bryk, A. S., Gomez, L. M., Grunow, A., & LeMahieu, P. (2015). Learning to improve: How America’s schools can get better at getting better. Harvard Education Publishing.

Buchanan-Rivera, E. (2022). Identity affirming classrooms: Spaces that center humanity. Routledge.

Cammarota, J. & Fine, M. (2008). Revolutionizing education: Youth participatory action research in motion. Routledge.

Cantor, P., & Osher, D. (2021). The science of learning and development: Enhancing the loves of all young people. Routledge.

Collins, P. H. (2022). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment (30th anniversary ed.). Routledge.

Collins, P. H., & Bilge, S. (2020). Intersectionality (2nd ed.). Polity Press.

Davis, T., & Harrison, L. M. (2013). Advancing social justice: Tools, pedagogies, and strategies to transform your campus. Jossey-Bass.

Emdin, C. (2021). Ratchetdemic: Reimagining academic success. Beacon Press.

Engel, R. J., & Schutt, R. K. (2013). The practice of research in social work (3rd ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc.

Enyonam Angbah, J., Heath, R. D., & Geraldo, T. L. (2026). Resilient futures: Addressing collective trauma and marginalization in out-of-school time spaces. Emerald Publishing Limited.

• Chapter based on the dissertation: Creating homeplaces for Black girls by Woodberry-Shaw, D., Freeman-Washington, C., Lewis, S. S., & Akiva, T. (pp. 245-272)

Esposito, J., & Evans-Winters, V. (2022). Introduction to intersectional qualitative research. SAGE Publications, Inc.

Essed, P. (1991). Understanding everyday racism: An interdisciplinary theory. SAGE Publications, Inc.

Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of the oppressed: 30th anniversary edition. Bloomsbury.

Ginwright, S. (2016). Hope and healing in urban education: How urban activists and teachers are reclaiming matters of the heart. Routledge.

Hatch, J. A. (2002), Doing qualitative research in education setting. Suny Press.

• Chapter: Doing qualitative research in education setting by Hatch, J. A. (pp. 1-35)

Kelley, R. D. G. (2002). Freedom dreams: The Black radical imagination. Beacon Press.

Love, B. L. (2019). We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon Press.

Miles, M. B., Huberman, A. M., & Saldaña, J. (2020). Qualitative data analysis: A methods sourcebook (4th ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc.

Morris, M. (2016). Pushout: The criminalization of Black girls in schools. The New Press.

Morris, M. (2019). Sing a rhythm, dance a blues: Liberatory education for Black and Brown girls. The New Press.

Morris, M (2022). Cultivating joyful learning spaces for Black girls: Insights into interrupting school pushout. ASCD.

Obama, M. (2022). The light we carry: Overcoming in uncertain times. Crown.

Ritchie, J & Ronald, K. (1990). Available means: An anthology of women’s rhetoric(s). University of Pittsburgh Press.

• Chapter:  Homeplace (a site of resistance) by hooks, b. (pp. 382–390)

Smitherman, G. (2022). Word from the mother: Language and African Americans. Routledge.