Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader

Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood The album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill sold over 420,000 copies in its first week, received ten Grammy nominations (winning five). Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader critically engages the work of Ms. Hill, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the album. Beyond the album?s commercial success, Ms. Hill?s radical self-consciousness and exuberance for life led listeners through her Black girl journey of love, motherhood, admonition, redemption, spirituality, sexuality, politics, and nostalgia that affirmed the power of creativity, resistance, and the tradition of African storytelling. Ms. Hill?s album provides inspirational energies that serve as a foundational text for Black girlhood. In many ways it is the definitive work of Black girlhood for the Hip Hop generation and beyond because it opened our eyes to a holistic narrative of woman and mother. Twenty years after the release of the album, we pay tribute to this work by adding to the quilt of Black girls? stories with the threads of feminist consciousness, which are particularly imperative in this space where we declare: Black girls matter. Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood is the first book to academically engage the work of the incomparable Ms. Hill. It intellectually wrestles with the interdisciplinary nature of Ms. Hill?s album, centering the connection between the music of Ms. Hill and the lives of Black girls. The essays in this collection utilize personal narratives and professional pedagogies and invite students, scholars, and readers to reflect on how Ms. Hill?s album influenced their past, present, and future.Additional ISBNs9781433147166, 9781433147135, 9781433147159Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader 1st Edition is written by Sankofa Waters, M. Billye / Evans-Winters, Venus E. / Love, Bettina L. and published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers. ISBNs for Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood are 9781433147142, 1433147149 and the print ISBNs are 9781433157820, 1433157829. Additional ISBNs include 9781433147166, 9781433147135, 9781433147159.