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Birthing Black Mothers /

"Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the "Black mother" has become a powerful political category synonymous with crisis, showing how they are often rendered into one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism and the ground zero of Black life."--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nash, Jennifer C., 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.