Esther O. Ohito is a creative writer, and educational researcher. She is an associate professor of English/literacy education at Rutgers Graduate School of Education in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Storying Black Girlhoods on Educational TerrainEsther O. Ohito with Lucía Mock Muñoz de LunaChapter 1. Black Girl Cartography: Black Girlhood and Place-Making in Education Research*Tamara T. Butler*This chapter is not available Open AccessChapter 2. Dear Toni Morrison: On Black Girls as Makers of Theories and WorldsKatelyn M. Campbell, Lauryn DuPree, and Lucía Mock Muñoz de LunaChapter 3. Queer Like Me: Black Girlhood Sexuality on the Playground, under the Covers, and in the Halls of AcademiaAdilia E. E. JamesChapter 4. Black Girls and the Pipeline from Sexual Abuse to Sexual Exploitation to PrisonNadine M. Finigan-CarrChapter 5. Modern-Day Manifestations of the Scarlet Letter: Othered Black Girlhoods, Deficit Discourse, and Black Teenage Mother Epistemologies in the Rural SouthTaryrn T. C. BrownChapter 6. “You Know, Let Me Put My Two Cents In”: Using Photovoice to Locate the Educational Experiences of Black GirlsLateasha MeyersChapter 7. “They Were Like Family”: Locating Schooling and Black Girl Navigational Practices in Richmond, VirginiaRenée WilmotChapter 8. On Young Ghanaian Women Being, Becoming, and Belonging in PlaceSusan E. WilcoxChapter 9. A Luo Girl’s InheritanceEsther O. OhitoConclusion: As Queer as a Black Girl: Navigating Toward a Transnational Black Girlhood StudiesLucía Mock Muñoz de Luna with Esther O. OhitoIndex