“Now that’s when you talk the most . . . they want you to sit at a table,” Leila said. “I been wanting to tell her something since nine o’clock! . . . It’s not just ’cause they’re Black. If you’re born poverty-stricken, you ain’t got no recess. The only time to talk is during lunch or after school. Y’all ain’t got no sports. Y’all ain’t got no activities. You don’t have nothin’ to be proud of at your school. You ain’t paint nothing on the walls, or participate in nothing. You just coming from nine [o’clock] . . . to four or three-thirty.” For these girls, the ways in which the learning spaces
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