Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Patricia Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
The State ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Attachment Parenting

This chapter introduces the attachment parenting (AP) phenomenon from the perspectives of black mothers. It reviews insights that the narratives of black mothers offer about the contemporary and particular experience of motherhood. It also analyzes AP journeys from the extreme practice of privileged white hippies to an increasingly accepted and influential dogma in the policies of the state and medical professionals. The chapter talks about the disruption of dominant construction of good mothering as the province of only white, middle-class women through the engagements of black mothers. It documents the diverse ways black women use AP to assert themselves as good mothers.

A Different Kind of Welfare State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie M. Fousekis
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Welfare Rights ◽  
Black And White ◽  
National Organization For Women ◽  
Welfare Rights Movement ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Women's Equality

This chapter looks at the new voices that began speaking for child care, both in California and across the nation: black mothers in the welfare rights movement and white middle-class women in the feminist movement. While black and white poor mothers organized in CPACC and around welfare rights, a more visible women's movement developed among predominantly the white middle class. In 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) emerged out of frustration over the government's unwillingness to enforce Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which made discrimination by sex as well as by race illegal. With seasoned women's rights, labor feminists, and a few black women at its helm, NOW quickly moved to the forefront of the struggle for women's equality.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Patricia Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Family Form ◽  
Children’S Wellbeing ◽  
Attachment Parenting ◽  
Unequal Access ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Mothers Experiences

This chapter reviews attachment parenting (AP) through the lens of black mothers' experiences and draws attention to the philosophy's place in neoliberal parenting culture. It highlights how ideas about good parenting deploy or elide race, class, and gender at different moments and for different, sometimes contradictory, purposes. It also talks about ideologies of good parenting that intend to be free of gender, class, and race but identify women as uniquely responsible for children's wellbeing. The chapter explains how AP offers a unique constellation of raced, classed and gendered effects as it draws from monolithic 'primitive' cultures and rests on a taken-for-granted family form in which mothers are financially supported to stay at home. It recounts the narratives of the black women that demand an analysis of parenting that addresses the differential effects of racism and unequal access to resources.

Witnessing a Birth

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-118
Author(s):  
Dána-Ain Davis
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Birth Stories ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Racial Stereotyping

The first part of this book has emphasized birth stories told by Black women and two Black men. These have frequently been angst-filled narratives, often soldered with histories and interpretations of racial stereotyping and the experience of racism. Up to this point the chapters have interrogated premature birthing experiences from the vantage point of Black mothers and fathers, who have been subjected to articulations of racial bias. Most mothers, but by no means all of them, described interactions with medical professionals that may be characterized as being caught up in webs of racism based on how they were treated....

scholarly journals Regimes of Patienthood: Developing an Intersectional Concept to Theorize Illness Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Kelly Ann Joyce ◽  
Jennifer E. James ◽  
Melanie Jeske
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Insurance Status ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Illness Experiences ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
And Gender

In this paper, we develop the concept regimes of patienthood. Regimes of patienthood highlights the micro and macro dimensions of illness, paying close attention to how the interplay between the two creates expectations and points of intervention for people when they are ill. Such expectations may vary across time, place, and social position (e.g., age, class, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality). Regimes of patienthood are always regimes of power and resistance, where the forms of resistance may vary based on individuals’ intersectional positions. We draw on two cases—a study of 45 mostly white, middle class adults living with autoimmune illnesses and a study of 20 Black women living with advanced cancer—to examine one dimension of regimes of patienthood—control. Although a number of social positions, such as age and race, co-produce illness experiences, we focus on three—class, insurance status, and gender—that are particularly salient in our data in relation to control. Such a move illustrates the theoretical power of regimes of patienthood for science and technology studies (STS).

Engaging Social Justice Methods to Create Palliative Care Programs That Reflect the Cultural Values of African American Patients with Serious Illness and Their Families: A Path Towards Health Equity

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-230
Author(s):  
Ronit Elk ◽  
Shena Gazaway
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
African American ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Serious Illness ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Healing Power

AbstractCultural values influence how people understand illness and dying, and impact their responses to diagnosis and treatment, yet end-of-life care is rooted in white, middle class values. Faith, hope, and belief in God’s healing power are central to most African Americans, yet life-preserving care is considered “aggressive” by the healthcare system, and families are pressured to cease it.

Inadvertent Exemplars: Life History Portraits of Two Socially Just Principals

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Scanlan
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Life History ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Public Elementary Schools ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Native English Speaking

This study creates life history portraits of two White middle-class native-English-speaking principals demonstrating commitments to social justice in their work in public elementary schools serving disproportionately high populations of students who are marginalized by poverty, race, and linguistic heritage. Through self-reported life histories of these principals, I create portraits that illustrate how these practitioners draw motivation, commitment, and sustenance in varied, complicated, and at times contradictory ways.

“Brenda’s Got a Baby”

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooklynn K. Hitchens ◽  
Yasser Arafat Payne
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Single Motherhood ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Group Interviews

This secondary analysis examines low-income, street-identified single Black mothers aged 18 to 35 years in Wilmington, Delaware. This study is guided by the following question: To what extent do family composition and criminal record/street activity shape notions of Black single motherhood? “Sites of resilience” theory informs this study by providing a reconceptualization of street life and the phenomenological experiences of street-identified Black women. This analysis draws on 310 surveys, 6 individual interviews, 3 dual interviews, 2 group interviews, and extensive field observations. Findings reveal how these women experience single motherhood within the context of blocked opportunity and structural inequality. Results also indicate that most women socially reproduced childhood attitudes and conditions, including “fatherless” homes and single motherhood. Use and sales of narcotics and incarceration were primary factors for why their children’s father didn’t reside in the home. Findings also suggest that number of children, arrest and incarceration rates, and educational and employment statuses are predictive of marital status in the women.

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