These Black Kids: Culturally Responsive Poetry and the Lived Experience of African American Adolescent Girls - Paperbackby Jennifer Bacon (Author) There is a space that resides between girlhood and womanhood. This space contains what is personal, familial, and societal. It is the place that transforms Black girls into Black women. This is also the place that beckons us to create our own identities and definition of Black womanhood. These Black Kids: The Lived Experience of African American Adolescent Girls Writing Poetry uncovers the voices of teen girls writing their