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Black Mothers
Communal Ownership of their
Daughters Degrees
Giovanni N. Dortch & Candice Lucas Bledsoe
(Hortense Spillers)
The Problem of Black Motherhood
The historical problem of Black Motherhood
is a racial conundrum, the inverse of racial
convergence perspectives (CRT)
Communal Mothering
Activist Mothering
Communal Ownership
Other mothering
Introduced by Patricia Hill Collins
This appeared as cross generational
mothering, mothering done by surrogates,
and multilayered mothering
Ex: mothering and grandmothering labor were
often simultaneous; aunts and others served
mothering roles; daughters mothered and were
mothered at the same time
Community Value
There is an actual value of community over
individualism, as a part of African American
mothering.