Jennifer C. Nash

Birthing Black Mothers

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Produktbeschreibung

Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the â Black motherâ 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014423
• ISBN-10: 1478014423
• Artikelnr.: 60418285

Autorenporträt

Jennifer C. Nash

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. The Afterlives of Malaysia Goodson, or Black Mothering in
Crisis  1
1. Black Gold: Remaking Black Breasts in an Era of Crisis  31
2. In the Room: Birthwork by Women of Color in a State of Emergency  69
3. Black Maternal Aesthetics: The Making of a Noncrisis Style  103
4. Writing Black Motherhood: Black Maternal Memoirs and Economies of Grief 
133
Conclusion. The Afterlives of Jazmine Headley  173
Coda. "All Mothers Were Summoned when George Floyd Called Out for His
Mama"  179
Notes  187
Bibliography  209
Index  235