1. NickiMinajAtVEVO, “Nicki Minaj—Anaconda,” YouTube.com, 19 August 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs.
2. Sir Mix-a-Lot, “Baby Got Back,” Mack Daddy (Los Angeles: Def American, 1992), CD.
3. Ruth Nicole Brown, Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy (New York: Peter Lang, 2008); Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013).
4. Literature on Black youth, particularly in urban spaces, centers on the possibilities or crises of deviance. See Rona Carter et al., “Ethnicity, Perceived Pubertal Timing, Externalizing Behaviors, and Depressive Symptoms Among Black Adolescent Girls,” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 40, no. 10 (2011): 1394–406; Rona Carter et al., “Heterosexual Romantic Involvement and Depressive Symptoms in Black Adolescent Girls: Effects of Menarche and Perceived Social Support,” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 44, no. 4 (2015): 940–51; Catherine Fisher Collins, ed., Black Girls and Adolescents: Facing the Challenges (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2015); Catherine Cubbin et al., “Neighborhood Poverty, Aspirations and Expectations, and Initiation of Sex,” Journal of Adolescent Health 47, no. 4 (2010): 399–406; Alice R. Gold and M. Carol St. Ange, “Development of Sex Role Stereotypes in Black and White Elementary School Girls,” Developmental Psychology 10, no. 3 (1974): 461–; Adilia E. E. James, “Too Early to Talk About Sex? Issues in Creating Culturally Relevant Sexuality Education for Preadolescent Black Girls in the United States,” Sexuality Research and Social Policy 7, no. 2 (2010): 128–41; Elaine Bell Kaplan, “Black Teenage Mothers and Their Mothers: The Impact of Adolescent Childbearing on Daughters’ Relations with Mothers,” Social Problems 43, no. 4 (1996): 427–43; Julian Roebuck and Marsha G. McGee, “Attitudes toward Premarital Sex and Sexual Behavior Among Black High School Girls,” The Journal of Sex Research 13, no. 2 (1977): 104–14; Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2009); Jacqueline B. Koonce, “‘Oh, Those Loud Black Girls!’: A Phenomenological Study of Black Girls Talking with an Attitude,” Journal of Language and Literacy Education 8, no. 2 (2012): 26–46; Faye Z. Belgrave, African American Girls: Reframing Perceptions and Changing Experiences (New York: Springer, 2009), 69–87.
5. bell hooks, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (New York: Henry Holt, 1996), xiii.