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Compugirls: How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age

Compugirls: How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age

Scott, Kimberly A.

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Series: Dissident Feminisms

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesTeaching InstructionWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0252044088
ISBN13: 9780252044083
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Oct 12 2021
Pages: 224
Language: English
What does is it mean for girls of color to become techno-social change agents--individuals who fuse technological savvy with a deep understanding of society in order to analyze and confront inequality?

Kimberly A. Scott explores this question and others as she details the National Science Foundation-funded enrichment project COMPUGIRLS. This groundbreaking initiative teaches tech skills to adolescent girls of color but, as importantly, offers a setting that emphasizes empowerment, community advancement, and self-discovery. Scott draws on her experience as an architect of COMPUGIRLS to detail the difficulties of translating participants' lives into a digital context while tracing how the program evolved. The dramatic stories of the participants show them blending newly developed technical and communication skills in ways designed to spark effective action and bring about important change.

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