Freeing Black girls : a Black feminist bible on racism and revolutionary mothering / Tamura Lomax.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lomax, Tamura A., author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lomax, Tamura A.

African American feminists.

African American mothers.

Motherhood--Political aspects--United States.

Motherhood.

African American women--Religious life.

African American women.

African American churches--Influence.

African American churches.

Misogynoir.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Freeing Black Girls explores Tamura Lomax's journey through girlhood, as she contends with religio-cultural scripts of morality within the Black Christian church, and her path to becoming a feminist adult and mother. The author investigates, through a Black feminist lens, what it means to mother Black children in the twenty-first century. Lomax identifies key problems in the way Black womanhood is formed and policed in the US, including the hyper-visibility and sexual vulnerability of Black girls, cultural norms of "virtuous" femininity, and suffocating demands for purity placed on Black sexuality by the church. In response to this theological and cultural misogynoir, Lomax presents the book as a love letter to her younger self and to other Black girls that stages an intervention into the politics of Black mothering by way of both the author's experience and theoretical analysis. Lomax issues a challenge to find new ways of mothering the next generation of Black girls. This revolutionary Black feminist mothering must stand boldly against empire, white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy, and aspirational Black patriarchy. It will demand deep and thick structural change of all sexual and gender and racial and class and ability hierarchies that deny people the freedom to thrive emotionally, intellectually, and bodily. Forging this new mothering is a sacred goal and will be at the heart of a new egalitarianism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Toxic literacies : good Black mothers, endangered Black boys, and invisible Black girls

Black girls matter : letter to my fourteen-year-old self

"F*ck y'all feminism" : Black girls, P-Valley, rape culture, and erotic power

"Break my soul" : precarity and resurrection in evangelical heteropatriarchal antiblack America

Emancipating Proverbs 31 : liberating rough, nasty, and aggressive Black girls to women

Ordinary or insurgent? From toxic femininity to revolutionary mothering

Toward sanctuary (and Black boys to men) : Black feminist mothering, an alternative literacy, philosophy, and practice.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Lomax, Tamura A. Freeing Black girls.

ISBN:

9781478060550

1478060557

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.