14 - Black Girlhood and Women's Work in Crooklyn
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A discussion of the relationship between girlhood, childhood, Black life, and women's work in Spike Lee's 1994 film Crooklyn. In this reflection, I read Lee's film - a collaboration with his siblings, especially his sister Joie Lee - as an exercise in portraiture. That is, Lee is not prescribing how Black girls should live, how life should unfold for them, or what sorts of work fall as the responsibility of women, but he is instead describing how in this kind of place girls, children, and women live their age and positioning in the world. Lee brings us the complex space of Black childhood that is either a fiction or a severely compromised reality: saturated with sadness, but also beauty. Insistent on beauty, Lee refuses to see the difficulties of Black life as merely abject.
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