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This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Black women academics’ legacy of knowledge production and intellectual thought, while balancing the intersecting pressures of social, familial, and academic responsibilities. Through the (her)stories of Black scholars, educators, activists, and mothers, it highlights how Black mothers in the academy navigate the interconnectedness of human rights, educational access, scholarship, pedagogy, and community service. Grounded in the intersectional experiences of Black womanhood—particularly mothering and othermothering—this book illustrates the profound impact of gender and race within higher education.
Edited by two Black motherscholars, this book centers the narratives of Black women in academia, amplifying their voices in response to the silencing of their experiences. It challenges institutions to reimagine policies and practices that support Black women scholars, addressing how they disrupt traditional understandings of knowledge production, Black womanhood, and motherhood in predominantly white academic spaces. This book explores five key themes: 1) Black motherscholars’ joy and wholeness as a form of resistance, 2) challenging white-centric notions of mothering and othermothering, 3) intergenerational experiences of Black motherscholars, 4) the impact of daughtering on their academic lives, and 5) revolutionary mothering in hostile academic environments.
This book incorporates a range of contributions, including empirical research, conceptual works, and creative expressions such as photography, and poetry, incorporating gender-expansive experiences of Black motherscholars beyond heteronormative perspectives. This book calls on higher education leaders to confront white patriarchy and the exploitation of Black women’s labor, providing strategies to support revolutionary mothering in academia. It amplifies Black motherscholars’ call for radical care and connection, fostering a more equitable academic future for Black women and their children.
List of contents
They never leave you bearing witness and holding space for radical healing reclamation and love.- Looking back to move forward unpacking maternal misogynoir in the academy.- For black women who have reconsidered flipping school boards when letters and lawsuits werent enough a divine and ancestral throughline of black education activism.- They are a burden to you reflecting on mothering as decolonial love in academia in south africa.- I know it in my knower testaments of spirituality within critical race mothering.- Madness and black motherhood reimagining scholarship for a radical future.- A duty of care reenvisioning academia through the intersectional lenses of gender race disability and black feminist praxis.- Black while mothering retaining scholarship motherhood and presence.- Black motherhood adoption and academia one black motherscholars journey building family.- Ivory towers bassinets and wheelchairs oh my.- Backing our babies the praxis of three black muslim motherscholars at home and in the academy.- Self efficacy in the brilliant black girl exploring the impact of exceptionalism on academic and professional success.- Academic mothering for black women in the caribbean a matricentric caribbean feminist approach.- I have my sisters back cultivating counterspaces in the academy to keep black motherscholars safe.- The unrelenting duality of black motherhood a dialogical examination of the role of the radical black motherscholar.- On my mama a duoethnography of black motherscholars contributions towards liberatory education for black children.- Torn between ways exploring non dualities through visual duo nkwaethnography as black motherscholars.- White shadows the path to awareness.- We aint going if she cant come with me an autobiography of a black single mama who walked across every stage with her daughter.- Interrogations of the mythical norm using endarkened poetic inquiry to queer black mother scholarship.- Visionary daughters the generational shift from mothering to daughtering for early career community college faculty.- We all we got! kinship as resistance reimagining the academy through black womens othermothering.- Beyond surviving on black motherscholars thriving in wellness belonging and leadership.- Blackademic mamas in chat using endarkened feminist epistemology to explore how black mothers navigate academic socialization.
About the author
Crystasany R. Turner, Ph.D. (she/her/ella), is Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Rooted in Black feminist epistemologies, her research and scholarship highlight the perspectives of Black women educators and their cultural knowledge as manifested in their care and education of Children of Color. Her teaching and research focus includes Black feminist epistemologies, early childhood education for social justice, and spirit-centered pedagogies. Her work interrogates imbalanced social power, institutional inequities, and systemic oppression affecting diverse children and families. Dr. Turner’s scholarship has been published in “Race Ethnicity and Education,” the “Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education,” the “Journal of Teacher Education,” and the “Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education” amongst others.
Meghan L. Green, Ed.D. (she/her), is Assistant Professor of Raciolinguistic Justice in Early Childhood Teacher Education at the Erikson Institute. As an arts-based qualitative researcher, she uses multiple modes of creative representation to reflect on her positionality and to craft her story as a cis Black queer woman engaging in critically informed research methodologies within this time and space. Her scholarship centers Black feminist thought and endarkened feminist epistemology within early childhood settings, specifically highlighting the diverse lived experiences of Black early childhood educators through arts-based qualitative inquiry methods including, autoethnography, endarkened narrative inquiry, photovoice, and poetic inquiry. Her scholarly works have been published in journals such as the “International Journal of Qualitative Methods,” the “Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education,” “Early Childhood Education Journal,” “Ethnic Studies Pedagogies,” and “Equity and Excellence in Education.”
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of Black women academics’ legacy of knowledge production and intellectual thought, while balancing the intersecting pressures of social, familial, and academic responsibilities. Through the (her)stories of Black scholars, educators, activists, and mothers, it highlights how Black mothers in the academy navigate the interconnectedness of human rights, educational access, scholarship, pedagogy, and community service. Grounded in the intersectional experiences of Black womanhood—particularly mothering and othermothering—this book illustrates the profound impact of gender and race within higher education.
Edited by two Black motherscholars, this book centers the narratives of Black women in academia, amplifying their voices in response to the silencing of their experiences. It challenges institutions to reimagine policies and practices that support Black women scholars, addressing how they disrupt traditional understandings of knowledge production, Black womanhood, and motherhood in predominantly white academic spaces. This book explores five key themes: 1) Black motherscholars’ joy and wholeness as a form of resistance, 2) challenging white-centric notions of mothering and othermothering, 3) intergenerational experiences of Black motherscholars, 4) the impact of daughtering on their academic lives, and 5) revolutionary mothering in hostile academic environments.
This book incorporates a range of contributions, including empirical research, conceptual works, and creative expressions such as photography, and poetry, incorporating gender-expansive experiences of Black motherscholars beyond heteronormative perspectives. This book calls on higher education leaders to confront white patriarchy and the exploitation of Black women’s labor, providing strategies to support revolutionary mothering in academia. It amplifies Black motherscholars’ call for radical care and connection, fostering a more equitable academic future for Black women and their children.
