Laku Neg in conversation with author, scholar activist Dr April-Louise Pennant discussing themes around Black girlhood, education and possibilities of empowerment from her new book Babygirl, You've Got This!
Pre-order/ buy ‘Babygirl, You’ve Got This: Experiences of Black Girls and Women in the English education system’ NOW here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/babygirl-youve-got-this-9781350278998/
Black Feminist Epistemology was created by Professor Patricia Hill Collins and you can read more about it here: https://www.routledge.com/Black-Feminist-Thought-Knowledge-Consciousness-and-the-Politics-of-Empowerment/Hill-Collins/p/book/9780415964722
You can find out more about Critical Race Theory here: https://www.routledge.com/Foundations-of-Critical-Race-Theory-in-Education/Taylor-Gillborn-Ladson-Billings/p/book/9780367617523
You can find out more about Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/outline-of-a-theory-of-practice/193A11572779B478F5BAA3E3028827D8
Here is more information about the ‘Weathering Hypothesis’ as researched by Dr Arline T. Geronimus: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weathering-Extraordinary-Stress-Ordinary-Society/dp/0316257974
Check out 'Young Female and Black' by Professor Heidi Safia Mirza here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Young-Female-Black-Heidi-Safia/dp/0415067057
Find out more about Dr April-Louise Pennant here: https://www.aprillouisepennant.com/ and her current research project here: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships/source-stream-centring-enslaved-africans-who-built-penrhyn-castle
Special thanks to our podcast editor David McSparron and Rawle-Ann Risha Gibbons for the music.