About Me.
Ngeri likes to think of herself as a professional student. Outside of being in school for practically, her whole life, Ngeri is always seeking out learning opportunities and adamant about creating them for those that she loves. In her spare time, Ngeri can be found at a museum or documentary screening, learning from others in her community.
Ngeri’s dissertation research is centered on Black girlhood. It interrogates the realities of Black girls within the school-to-confinement pathway in relation to how they experience adultification and sisterhood. Ngeri hopes to create meaningful space to privilege the voices of Black girls who tend to go unheard. This research will shine light on our society’s tendency to criminalize Black girls in spaces that are supposed to be safe for them socially, emotionally and intellectually.
Recognition.
Ngeri is a 2019 Fellowship recipient of the International Center for Jefferson Studies for her work,"Educated and Enslaved: How Plantation Life Supported the Literacy of Black Children."
Black children are constantly painted in negative lights when it comes to being perceived as possessing competencies and skills sets that present them as capable. This narrative has been consistently applied beginning with the period of enslavement. Ngeri Nnachi interrogates this inherent misalignment in the representation of Black children because Black children were instrumental in the functionality of the plantation. Nnachi analyzes the records maintained from the Jefferson plantation to reconstruct the narrative of capability as it pertains to black children. She parallels her findings with the construct of literacy within a comparison of frameworks by Annette Lareau: concerted cultivation and free flow.
