Lecture: For Rural Blackgirls who considered shapeshifting when being country was enuf

Lecture by Dr. Qiana Cutts Givens

Associate professor of counseling, Ed Psych, & Foundations

This talk presents research on the girlhood and creative artistry of rural Blackgirls by exploring data collected from rural Blackgirls in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. The research aimed to answer a question developed as a result of reviewing the literature on the girlhood and creative artistry experiences of Blackgirls and identifying how vastly rural Blackgirls are under-represented. The question: Where are the rural Blackgirl stories? Subsequent data collection, analysis, and interpretation are driven by autoethnographic reflections, critical arts-based inquiry, and interviews and focus groups