This article utilizes Black girlhood as a framework in a critical multimodal qualitative inquiry to explore the complexities of representations of Black girls’ hair, in picturebooks. Using a data corpus of 55 picturebooks published between 2010–2020, the authors analyzed the multimodal messages embedded in the initial introductions of Black girl protagonists. The findings suggest that contemporary children’s literature represents a broad array of Black girls’ hair, even when the central message is not about hair, denoting the importance of this cultural representation in assertions of identity. Findings suggest that the theme of elevation was demonstrated across the corpus, and was further expressed in the subthemes of; (1) salience of hair, (2) physical elevation of hair, and (3) importance of hair.

本文利用黑人少女时代作为批判性多模式定性调查的框架，以探索图画书中黑人女孩头发表现的复杂性。作者使用 2010 年至 2020 年间出版的 55 本图画书的数据语料库，分析了黑人女孩主角最初介绍中嵌入的多模式信息。研究结果表明，当代儿童文学代表了广泛的黑人女孩头发，即使中心信息不是关于头发，这表明这种文化表现在身份主张中的重要性。调查结果表明，提升主题在整个语料库中得到体现，并在以下子主题中进一步表达；(1) 头发的显着性，(2) 头发的物理高度，以及 (3) 头发的重要性。