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anneliehyatt's review against another edition
3.0
A moving story about the black girls who stayed at Fresh Start, a homeless shelter that was devoted to improving the lives of homeless men and women as they sought to secure stable employment.
Conflicted. While Cox ix a great writer, her decision to write in a style that only seems accessible to her fellow academics seems counterintuitive to her message. Moreover, she struggles to interweave her captivating narratives with her more muddled analyses, and especially struggles to weave them together on the larger level into a coherent narrative.
Conflicted. While Cox ix a great writer, her decision to write in a style that only seems accessible to her fellow academics seems counterintuitive to her message. Moreover, she struggles to interweave her captivating narratives with her more muddled analyses, and especially struggles to weave them together on the larger level into a coherent narrative.
shelbertcarr's review against another edition
5.0
Aimee Cox is incredibly self-reflexive in her book. She allows these girls to teach her, instead of remaining an untouchable observer. Cox's "Shapeshifters" brings a human face to the economic disaster that is Detroit, showing us how young black girls survive and thrive in uncertain circumstances.
ninawilson49's review against another edition
5.0
One of the most enlightening and thought provoking books I have ever read. Cox provides insight, theory, and folklore and storytelling to stories about young Black girls and women. She allows readers to look into the lives of Black girls (whether Black or not), using ethnography in a way that was not meant to probe and consume someone's life, but rather feel like you are a part of it. Not only does she provide important insight on the ways in which we might use fieldwork and ethnographic field methods, she critiques the use of it and engages with her own theory and praxis within the very fieldwork she is doing. Amazing book.
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