Black Girls and How We Fail Them

Aria S. Halliday is associate professor of gender and women’s studies and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky.

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"In Black Girls and How We Fail Them, Aria Halliday eloquently and incisively captures the relationship between popular culture and the sociological realities that shape our collective understanding of race and gender in America. Halliday's book is a penetrating examination of how depictions of Black girls and women in music, film, and politics both animate and reflect the way they are treated in society at large. This book is both an invitation and an opportunity. I am so grateful it exists."—Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America

"A timely and honest love letter to Black girls and an exploration of accountability for those who love and misunderstand them alike. A must-read for those inside and outside popular culture's long reach."—Regina N. Bradley, author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

"This book feels like a conversation that I’ve been longing to have or listen in on, being held by people who are invested, hosted by a friend. Piercingly insightful. Honest. Mad. Vulnerable. Understanding. May we take heed of Aria Halliday's words and insights."—Crystal Leigh Endsley, author of Quantum Justice: Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry

"Refreshingly straightforward. Through twelve media examples, Aria Halliday highlights how society's participation in the spread of misogynoir creates conditions that repeatedly shortchange Black girls in every aspect of their lives, offering examples that show the potential for change."—Moya Bailey, author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance