The Colored Girls Museum Archives

Books

Black Futures

EDITED BY KIMBERLY DREW & JENNA WORTHAM

Black Futures is an American anthology of Black art, writing, and other creative work, edited by writer Jenna Wortham and curator Kimberly Drew. Writer Teju Cole, singer Solange Knowles, and activist Alicia Garza, who cofounded Black Lives Matter, are among the book’s more than 100 contributors.

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Museum Learning: Theory and Research as Tools for Enhancing Practice

BY JILL HOHENSTEIN & THEANO MOUSSOURI

Museum Learning attempts to make sense of multiple learning theories whilst focusing on a set of core learning topics in museums. Importantly, learning is considered not just as a cognitive characteristic, as some perspectives propose, but also as affective, taking into consideration interests, attitudes, and emotions; and as a social practice situated in cultural contexts.

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Breath Better Spent:
Living Black Girlhood

BY DAMARIS B. HILL

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing comes a new book of narrative in verse that takes a personal and historical look at the experience of Black girlhood. In Breath Better Spent, DaMaris B. Hill hoists her childhood self onto her shoulders, together taking in the landscape of Black girlhood in America.

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The Space Love Maps:
A Blackgirl Legend in Three Plots

BY LOREN S. CAHILL

This is a love story from one Blackgirl (Boylorn, 2016) from St. Louis to Blackgirls in Philadelphia. It radically traces love across plots of race, gender, time, space, and affect. This text will provide non-conventional maps for how Blackgirls, young and old, have been memory keepers, cultural workers, love pillars, freedom mappers, and actors since before the inception of American slavery (Brown, 2013; Hartman, 2019; Hooks, 1993; Nash, 2013; Walker, 2004).

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