... Black feminism Black motherhood maternal theory ...

... Black feminism Black motherhood maternal theory ...

... black motherhood black reproduction self-possession Betye Saar Corregidora Jamaica Kincaid ...

... justice system Black motherhood antiracism police violence criminalization ...

...Preface<subtitle>Beauty, or All about My Mother</subtitle> The preface narrates the author’s experience as the mother of a still-small child and the daughter of a parent with Alzheimer’s. Black feminism Black motherhood maternal theory ...

... the host of ways that Black feminists have contended with loss by thinking about and with mothers. Black feminism Black motherhood maternal theory ...

... media assemblage “Lullaby,” Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’s photograph “When I am not Here/Estoy Allá,” Gayl Jones’s Corregidora , Lorna Simpson’s photograph “Self-Possession,” and Jamaica Kincaid’s novel The Autobiography of My Mother . black motherhood black reproduction self-possession Betye...

... of the population. justice system Black motherhood antiracism police violence criminalization ...

... representations of this segment of the population. justice system Black motherhood antiracism police violence criminalization ...

... Girls. The chapter demonstrates how black women leaders argued for black girls’ innocence and value by highlighting their needs, while also deploying the rhetoric of race motherhood. Black women also fought to maintain control of organizations that served black girls because black men’s leadership...

...Prologue The prologue introduces the central themes and concerns of the author’s journey unraveling the complexities of race in America, beginning in a scene of her younger son’s college graduation in which black and white “events” are sometimes separated. The voice is personal and intimate...

... Chapter 3 explores and deconstructs the concept of whiteness through close readings of memoir and fiction by African American writers, interwoven with stories of the writer’s family life with her husband and two growing sons. The case of the Central Park Jogger, in which a group of black boys...

..., the rhizomatic, the indeterminate. The complex and creatively enabling corporeality addressed in both text and music is materially sounded as black and maternal. For black women, motherhood is a strategic site of embodied political consciousness, of resistance, and of agency. Mitchell’s hybrid of composed...

... in a black family, daughter of her father—an immigrant and radical activist, a volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American battalion that fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. As the writer meditates on her history as it has formed and reformed over the years, she comes...

... race interracial families motherhood autobiography as transformation literature of witness ...

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... mixed-race identity motherhood and writer daughter of Jewish immigrant Spanish Civil War family differences and similarities ...

... and feel. Her composition is a recombinant admixture of the transparently decipherable and the plural, the rhizomatic, the indeterminate. The complex and creatively enabling corporeality addressed in both text and music is materially sounded as black and maternal. For black women, motherhood is a strategic...