Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 3550 g
I Am Not Your Mammy
Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 3550 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in African American Literature
ISBN: 978-1-032-71998-6
Verlag: Routledge
Black feminist mothering can birth new worlds. As today’s world becomes increasingly hostile—with the rising cost of food coupled with global warming’s devastating impact—we are in need of a feminism bold enough to imagine new pathways for survival. Black feminist mothering may well be the remedy. This volume positions Black feminist mothering as much more than a biological or caregiving role. Building on key Black feminist tenets, Carr examines Black women’s maternal labors as a practice and proclamation for mothering ourselves, tending to each other, and nourishing our communities. Far too often, Black women’s maternal, intellectual, and political labors are recognized only in service to white supremacist capitalism. Mammy. Breeder. Welfare queen. This text counters these dehumanizing iconographies to focus instead on the Black maternal’s imaginitive possibilities. Not only does Carr address Black women’s resistance to white supremacist power plays, but she also attends to Black heteropatriarchy and the burdens racial solidarity imposes on Black women. The Black maternal, Carr argues, is a cradle for Black revolution. As Assata Shakur famously declared, “We are pregnant with freedom.”
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Introduction
Chapter One:“Riding with Death: Assata ShakurFannie Lou Hamer, and Revolutionary Black Matrilineal Consciousness”
Chapter Two: “The Motherwork Continues: Merciful Mothering in the Black Lives Matter Era”
Chapter Three: “Sisters in Bloom: Tending to the Garden of Sisterhood”
Chapter Four: “We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: Sisterwork in the Time of Betty, Coretta, and Myrlie”
Chapter Five: “I Am Not My Brother’s Keeper: Black Women M(o)thering Themselves”
Chapter Six: “I Am Not Your Mammy: Kamala Harris and the Politics of Refusal”
