Birthing Black mothers
"In Birthing Black Mothers, Jennifer C. Nash narrates Black Lives Matter as a capacious social movement that has performed its radical political work by claiming that Black maternal lives matter. Through focus groups, interviews with Black doulas, as well as cultural critique, Nash discusses no...
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. |
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| Online Access: | Available in e-Duke Books 2021 Collection. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-233) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "In Birthing Black Mothers, Jennifer C. Nash narrates Black Lives Matter as a capacious social movement that has performed its radical political work by claiming that Black maternal lives matter. Through focus groups, interviews with Black doulas, as well as cultural critique, Nash discusses not only how the biopolitical state and Black feminists invoke Black mothers to gain political currency, but also how Black mothers themselves engage with the ways their images and lives are deployed. The project is an invitation for Black feminists to theorize, organize, and freedom-dream in ways that imagine Black motherhood apart from anticipated trauma, a vision that has positive material outcomes for Black mothers and which refuses to reproduce Black motherhood merely as a trauma category"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a African American mothers. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Womanism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Black lives matter movement. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Doulas |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Reproductive health services |x Social aspects |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African American women |x Medical care |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Race discrimination |x Health aspects |z United States. | |
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