Mothering While Black (eBook)

Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood

Dawn Marie Dow (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
272 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97177-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Mothering While Black examines the complex lives of the African American middle classin 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 mothersapply differentparenting 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 Blacksheds 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.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments

Introduction
PART I. CULTIVATING CONSCIOUSNESS
1. Creating Racial Safety and Comfort
2. Border Crossers
3. Border Policers
4. Border Transcenders
PART II. BEYOND SEPARATE SPHERES AND THE CULT OF DOMESTICITY
5. The Market-Family Matrix
6. Racial Histories of Family and Work
7. Alternative Configurations of Child-Rearing
Conclusion and Implications

Appendix: Methods
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: African American Community • african american middle class • african upper middle class • authentically black identities • Black boys • black girls • black mothers • breadwinning • childrearing • Culture • different expectations • different parenting strategies • dominant cultural experience • Ethnicity • Family • Gender • intersection of race • maintain class status • middle class families • middle class motherhood • raising black children • Sociology • white mothers • Work
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97177-9 / 0520971779
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97177-6 / 9780520971776