Coming of (R)age: Book Project Talk

In her current book project Coming of (R)age: Charting Black Girl Lit Studies,  Dr. Lashon Daley argues that Black girls do not come of age in mediated  representations of girlhood due to the ways in which the historic  traumas of slavery, civil rights, and racial formation have adulterated  how their age, rates of physical maturation, and social development are  constructed and perceived. Rather, they come of (r)age. Through memory  and imagining, embodied performances and (re)enactments, and digital  composition and mapping, Dr. Daley discusses her framework for  dismantling mediated representations that pin Black girls as culturally  deviant.