Black Feminist Mothering in 21st Century Literature

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Nicole Carr is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Texas A&M San Antonio. Recent publications include: "The Black Wanderer: Reading the Black Diaspora, Resistance, and Becoming in The History of Mary Prince" in ABO: Interdisciplinary Journal on Women in the Arts and Black Women's Maternal Labor: Lessons from Fannie Lou Hamer in the Wake of Roe v. Wade in National Center for Institutional Diversity's Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues.

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This volume positions Black feminist mothering as much more than biological or caregiving role. Building on key Black feminist tenets, Dr. Carr examines Black women's maternal labors as the radical proclamation of our ability to mother ourselves, tend to each other, and nourish our communities.

Résumé
Black feminist mothering can birth new worlds, and as today's world becomes increasingly hostilerising costs of food and housing coupled with global warming's devastating impactwe are in desperate need of a revolutionary feminism bold enough to imagine new pathways for survival. This volume positions Black feminist mothering as much more than biological or caregiving role. Building on key Black feminist tenets, Dr. Carr examines Black women's maternal labors as the radical proclamation of our ability to mother ourselves, tend to each other, and nourish our communities. Far too often, Black women's maternal, intellectual, and political labors are only recognized when in service to white supremacist capitalism. Mammy. Breeder. Welfare queen. This text counters these dehumanizing iconographies, focusing instead on the Black maternal's radical possibilities for freedom. Not only does Carr address Black women's responses to white supremacist power plays, but she also attends to Black heteropatriarchy and the burdens racial solidarity imposes on Black women. The Black maternal, Carr argues, is a cradle for Black revolution. As Assata Shakur famously declared, We are pregnant with freedom.

Contenu

Introduction

Chapter One:Riding with Death: The Revolutionary Black Matrilineal Consciousness of Assata Shakur and Fannie Lou Hamer

Chapter Two: The Motherwork Continues: Merciful Mothering in the Black Lives Matter Era

Chapter Three: Sisters in Bloom: Tending to the Garden of Sisterhood

Chapter Four: We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: Sisterwork in the Time of Betty, Coretta, and Myrlie

Chapter Five: I Am Not My Brother's Keeper: Black Women M(o)thering Ourselves

Chapter Six: I Am Not Your Mammy: The Politics of Refusal in the Age of Kamala Harris