{"product_id":"shapeshifters-aimee-meredith-cox-9780822359319","title":"Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship","description":"In \u003ci\u003eShapeshifters\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eShapeshifters\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aimee Meredith Cox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822359316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822359319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/14\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2016","brand":"Aimee Meredith Cox","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042687873279,"sku":"9780822359319","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1605f3a0-b3a8-438b-be04-ecc2871f9c5d.jpg?v=1684962962","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shapeshifters-aimee-meredith-cox-9780822359319","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}