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Professor Regis Fox will be reading her chapter from the forthcoming anthology Trauma, Tresses, and Truth.

Her abstract is as follows:

I'll be reading my piece from the forthcoming anthology Trauma, Tresses, and Truth, which examines one intersection between trauma and black mothering, particularly as it relates to the policing of black girlhood.  For example, when my now three-year-old daughter was just a year old, her hair was mismanaged and manipulated without consent (hers or mine) at a predominantly white daycare facility.  This act corresponded with additional instances in which staff sought to contain my daughter’s apparent excessiveness (i.e. she was also referred to by staff on more than one occasion as having an "attitude").  My essay considers the ways such treatment impacts black girls and black mothers (their psyches, their relationships with one another, etc.), but also coincides with intra-racial policing and respectability politics.

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