ABSTRACT
Centering Black girls’ lived experience through critical media literacy has the potential to give girls opportunities to develop language to identify, deconstruct, and problematize the complexity of power operating in media and to negotiate visibility by counternarrating racist, sexist, and classist media narratives with authentic stories of Black girlhood. Critical media literacy practices align with the rich and historic tradition of activism among Black women and girls for the goal of social change. This chapter centers Black girls in critical media literacy by employing pedagogy that uses the Black Girls’ Literacies Framework. Dr. McArthur unpacks critical media literacy for classroom teachers and shares practical ways to employ critical media literacy and the Black Girls’ Literacies Framework to alter the educational landscape to effect social change.
