1. Dwight Conquergood, “Beyond the Text: Toward a Performative Cultural Politics,” in The Future of Performance Studies: Visions and Revisions, ed. Sheron J. Dailey (Washington, DC: National Communication Association, 1998), 25–36; Norman K. Denzin, Performance Ethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003); Della Pollock, “Performance Trouble,” in The Sage Handbook of Performance Studies, ed. D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006), 1–8; Laurel Richardson, “Poetic Representation of Interviews,” in Handbook of Interview Research: Context and Method, ed. Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002), 822–91; Laurel Richardson and Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, “Writing: A Method of Inquiry,” in Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, ed. Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), 473–500.
2. Robin M. Boylorn, Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience (New York: Peter Lang, 2013).
3. Ruth Nicole Brown, Black Girlhood Celebration: Towards a Hip Hop Feminist Pedagogy (New York: Peter Lang, 2009); Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013).
4. Ibid.
5. Brown, Hear Our Truths.