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Birthing Black Mothers (Paperback)
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In Birthing Black Mothers Black feminist theorist Jennifer C. Nash
examines how the figure of the "Black mother" has become a powerful
political category. "Mothering while Black" has become synonymous
with crisis as well as a site of cultural interest, empathy,
fascination, and support. Cast as suffering and traumatized by
their proximity to Black death-especially through medical racism
and state-sanctioned police violence-Black mothers are often
rendered as one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism. In contrast,
Nash examines Black mothers' self-representations and public
performances of motherhood-including Black doulas and breastfeeding
advocates alongside celebrities such as Beyonce, Serena Williams,
and Michelle Obama-that are not rooted in loss. Through cultural
critique and in-depth interviews, Nash acknowledges the
complexities of Black motherhood outside its use as political
currency. Throughout, Nash imagines a Black feminist project that
refuses the lure of locating the precarity of Black life in women
and instead invites readers to theorize, organize, and dream into
being new modes of Black motherhood.
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