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Birthing Black mothers / Jennifer C. Nash.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nash, Jennifer C., 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American mothers.
- Womanism.
- Black lives matter movement.
- Doulas--United States.
- Doulas.
- Reproductive health services--Social aspects--United States.
- Reproductive health services.
- African American women--Medical care--United States.
- African American women.
- Race discrimination--Health aspects--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource xxii, 248 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the "Black mother" has become a powerful political category synonymous with crisis, showing how they are often rendered into one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism and the ground zero of Black life."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The afterlives of Malaysia Goodson, or Black mothering in crisis
- Black gold : remaking Black breasts in an era of crisis
- In the room : birthwork by women of color in a state of emergency
- Black maternal aesthetics : the making of a non-crisis style
- Writing Black motherhood : Black maternal memoirs and economies of grief
- Conclusion. The afterlives of Jazmine Headley
- Coda. "All mothers were summoned when George Floyd called out for his mama" : notes from the third pandemic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781478013501
- 1478013508
- 9781478021728
- 1478021721
- OCLC:
- 1252064316
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