Black motherhood(s) : contours, contexts and considerations / edited by Karen T. Craddock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Craddock, Karen T., 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood.

Women, Black.

African American mothers.

Mothers and daughters--Psychology.

Mothers and daughters.

African American mothers in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 229 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Black motherhood

Black motherhoods

Place of Publication:

Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2015]

Summary:

"This book considers Black Motherhood through multiple and global lenses to engage the reader in an expanded reflection and to prompt further discourse on the intersection of race and gender within the construct of motherhood among black women. With an aim to extend traditional treatments of black motherhood that are often centered on a subordinated and struggling perspective, these essays address some of the hegemonic reality while also exploring nuance in experiences, less explored areas of subjugation, as well as pathways of resistance and resilience in spite of it. Largely focusing within domains such as narrative, identity, spirituality and sexuality, the book deftly explores black motherhood by incorporating varied arenas for discussion including, literary analysis, expressive arts, historical fiction, the African Diaspora, reproductive health, religion and social ecology."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Narrating black motherhoods: telling black mothers' lives

"Mother's voice" - having her say: storytelling in articulating black women's diaspora identity / Helen Crump

Pushing back with our souls intact: young black mother's resistance to marginalization / Karen T. Craddock

Motherland mothers: experiencing African motherhood home and abroad

Transnational mothering: the meaning of African immigran women's lives / Florence Kyomugisha

Motherhood and empowerment in West Africa: the case of Buchi Emecheta / Delphine Fongang

Musing black mothers: refleting black mothers in poetics and literature

Everybody's mama now: Gloria Naylor's Mama Day as discourse on the black mother's identity / RaShell Smith-Spears

Re-envisioning black motherhood: the performance poetics of Gwendolyn Brooks and Lucille Clifton / Celeste Doaks

Mothering, mothers and the historic representations of black motherhood in fiction: Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings / Lisa Elwood

Body and soul: interpreting black motherhood in reproduction and religion

Birthing black motherhood: a short history of how race shapes childbirth as a rite of passage / Tyralynn Frazier

Black motherhood as a metaphor of Christanity in missionary photography / Emilie Gangnat

What we say, how we do - interactions between black mothers and daughters

Black mothers' messages of pride to their adolescent daughters / Tracy Nichols and Regina McCoy

Getting the parts straight: the psychology of hair combing interaction between African-American mothers and daughters / Marva L. Lewis

Closing thoughts, mothering the girls we were then: prose and promises / Karen T. Craddock with Tracy Robinson-Wood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77258-013-9