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Publication Date: October 2015 ISBN: 978-1-927335-25-3 This book considers Black Motherhood through multiple and global lenses to engage the reader in an expanded reflection and to prompt further discourse on the intersection of race and gender within the construct of motherhood among Black women. With an aim to extend traditional treatments of Black motherhood that are often centered on a subordinated and struggling perspective, these essays address some of the hegemonic reality while also exploring nuance in experiences, less explored areas of subjugation, as well as pathways of resistance and resilience in spite of it. Largely focusing within domains such as narrative, identity, spirituality and sexuality, the book deftly explores black motherhood by incorporating varied arenas for discussion including: literary analysis, expressive arts, historical fiction, the http://demeterpress.org/books/black-motherhoods-contexts-contours-and-considerations/

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“What I like best about this book is the wide variety of adopted approaches to the topic of Black Motherhood. From diasporic fiction, to global mothering, to hairdressing rituals to missionary photos, the authors unpack what it means to be a black woman mothering her children under conditions of unrelenting oppression. Dr. Craddock has pulled together a fascinating multidisciplinary collection of scholars that provides a conceptual framework (‘the contours of black mothers’ hearts, the contexts that black mothers embody and encounter, and the considerations of black mothers’ minds’) to assist the reader in analyzing the ideas put forward in the collection. This is not just for social scientists, not just for scholars in the humanities, not just for health care professionals. There is something in this collection for all of these different audiences.... The insight provided by this edited volume centers on how the authors are able to illustrate the many ways in which black women in the U.S., in Europe, and in Africa meet challenges across time, across situations, in intimate familiar relationships, and in public and in private spaces. That these chapters cross so many different contexts is amazing and extremely important at a time in which black women themselves are increasingly dispersed throughout the world. Of particular attention is the intellectual importance of this work. It will open up the scholarship on

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