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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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Author / Creator: Nash, Jennifer C., 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Imprint: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
African American mothers.
Womanism.
Black lives matter movement.
Doulas > United States.
Reproductive health services > Social aspects > United States.
African American women > Medical care > United States.
Race discrimination > Health aspects > United States.
Online Access:Available in e-Duke Books 2021 Collection.
Table of 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.

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