The Potty Mouth Granny

The autobiographical memoir “Tales of a Little Ghetto Girl” by Kathy Henry, published in the urban policy and cultural journal Urban Reinventors, presents a poignant autoethnographic examination of working-class Black female life in late-twentieth-century Chicago. Grounded in the discipline of urban sociology, Henry’s narrative functions as both a personal coming-of-age chronicle and a rigorous lived-experience…