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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 _c;112268 _d;18/05/2018
082			_a305.23082 COX
100			_aAimee Meredith Cox
245			_aShapeshifters _b: Black girls and the choreography of citizenship _c/Aimee Meredith Cox
260			_aDurham _b: Duke University Press _c, 2015.
300			_axvi, 280 pages _c ; 24 cm.
505			_a"We came here to be different": the Brown family and remapping Detroit -- Renovations -- Narratives of protest and play -- Sex, gender, and scripted bodies -- The move experiment.
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aSocial sciences
655			_aAfrican American homeless persons
700			_aAimee Meredith Cox
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