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by Aimee Meredith Cox


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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 imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter, Cox shows how the shelter's residents--who range in age from fifteen to twenty-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, while their creation of alternative family structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection, and love. Cox also uses these young women's experiences to tell larger stories: of Detroit's history, the Great Migration, deindustrialization, the politics of respectability, and the construction of Black girls and women as social problems. With Shapeshifters Cox gives a voice to young Black women who find creative and non-normative solutions to the problems that come with being young, Black, and female in America.

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  • Title Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
  • Author Aimee Meredith Cox
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2015-08-14
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780822359319 / 0822359316
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects African American girls - Michigan - Detroit, Homeless girls - Michigan - Detroit
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015005598
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.230

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About the author

Aimee Meredith Cox is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University.
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