Book chapter
"They Say I'm Hopeless": Jane McKeene Talks Back as Black Girls Do-Interlocking Oppressions and Justina Ireland's Dread Nation
The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, pp 555-564
2024
Abstract
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland is used in this chapter to theorize the material realities of Black girls in schools. Damaris C. Dunn is an advocate for Blackgirlmagic in SF that moves us beyond Black girls' capacity to endure the afterlife of slavery. This chapter meets at the intersection of critical race theory, Black girlhood studies, and education to pay homage to Jane McKeene and Black girls who talk back.
This chapter meets at the intersection of critical race theory, Black girlhood studies, and education to pay homage to Jane McKeene and Black girls who talk back. Justina Ireland composes Dread Nation as an alternate history that tells the story of Jane McKeene, a fierce, outspoken Black girl whose life changes when the federal government passes the "Negro and Native Reeducation Act", forcing Negro and native children to attend combat schools. Critical race theory (CRT) scholars are both existentially and ideologically committed to the struggle against racism. Like Jane McKeene, Katherine Devaraux, and Massie Carpenter, Black girls in schools simply try to survive. CRT combined with SF provides a primer language to help the reader center the lived experiences of Jane McKeene while recognizing her agency in an alternate history that exists as a backdrop by which she asserts her Black Girl Magic.
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- Title
- "They Say I'm Hopeless"
- Creators
- Damaris C. Dunn
- Contributors
- Taryne Jade Taylor (Editor)Isiah Lavender (Editor)Grace L. Dillon (Editor)Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (Editor)
- Publication Details
- The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, pp 555-564
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Number of pages
- 10
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85177535506
- Other Identifier
- 991022004780704721