Mothering While Black

Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood

Dawn Marie Dow (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2019
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30032-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Dawn Marie Dow is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Faculty Associate at the Maryland Population Research Center.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.05.2019
Zusatzinfo	3 b-w figures, 3 tables, 1 map
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-30032-7 / 0520300327
ISBN-13	978-0-520-30032-3 / 9780520300323
Zustand	Neuware