1st Edition
Black Feminist Mothering in 21st Century Literature I Am Not Your Mammy
By Nicole Carr
Copyright 2025
176 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
Black feminist mothering can birth new worlds. As today’s world becomes increasingly hostile—with the rising cost of food coupled with global warming’s devastating impact—we are in need of a feminism bold enough to imagine new pathways for survival. Black feminist mothering may well be the remedy. This volume positions Black feminist mothering as much more than a biological or caregiving role.... Read more
Introduction
Chapter One:“Riding with Death: Assata ShakurFannie Lou Hamer, and Revolutionary Black Matrilineal Consciousness”
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 Themselves”
Chapter Six: “I Am Not Your Mammy: Kamala Harris and the Politics of Refusal”
Biography
Nicole Carr is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature.
