ISBN:
9780520971776
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (272 pages)
DDC:
306.874/30896073
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
;
African American mothers Social conditions
;
Intersectionality (Sociology)
;
Middle class African Americans Family relationships
;
Parenting Social aspects
;
Mittelstand
;
Mutter
;
Schwarze Frau
;
Soziale Situation
;
USA
;
USA
;
Schwarze Frau
;
Mutter
;
Mittelstand
;
Soziale Situation
Abstract:
Mothering While Black examines the complex lives of the African American middle class-in particular, black mothers and the strategies they use to raise their children to maintain class status while simultaneously defining and protecting their children's "authentically black" identities. Sociologist Dawn Marie Dow shows how the frameworks typically used to research middle-class families focus on white mothers' experiences, inadequately capturing the experiences of African American middle- and upper-middle-class mothers. These limitations become apparent when Dow considers how these mothers apply different parenting strategies for black boys and for black girls, and how they navigate different expectations about breadwinning and childrearing from the African American community. At the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, work, family, and culture, Mothering While Black sheds light on the exclusion of African American middle-class mothers from the dominant cultural experience of middle-class motherhood. In doing so, it reveals the painful truth of the decisions that black mothers must make to ensure the safety, well-being, and future prospects of their children
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
,
In English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520971776
Permalink
