June 2013
June 2013
250 pages $34.95
978-1-927335-02-4
Table of Contents
Introduction - Sekile Nzinga-Johnson
Part 1. Transgression
1. Community Property: Black Mother’s Communal Ownership of their Daughter’s Degrees - Candice Bledsoe and Giovanni N. Dortch
2. Teaching for Change: Notes from a Broke Queer Hustling Mama - Vanessa L. Marr
3. Knocked Up Against the Maternal Wall: Black Women Academics’ Negotiations of Pregnancy and Motherhood - Sekile Nzinga-Johnson
4. Black Academic and Single Mother: Colliding Statuses - Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Part 2. Testimony
5. Mothering Black: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Mothering in the Nigerian Academy - Rose. A. Sackeyfio
6. I’m Not Your Mama; Do Your Work: The Black Female Academic as Surrogate Mother - Tokeya C. Graham
7. Walking Tightropes Without Nets: The Adjunct as Single Mother - Stacia L. Brown
8. And There Went My Adventurer’s Spirit: Motherhood and Fieldwork post 9/11
- Patricia Williams Lessane
9. Clashing Clocks: African-American Women Professors’ Perceptions on Parenting on Tenure Track - Markesha S. McWilliams and Natalie T.J. Tindall
Part 3. Transcendence
10. Mother I Need Your Dreams...Now: ‘Doing My Work’: Daughter Dreams and the Teaching Life of Audre Lorde - Alexis Pauline Gumbs
11. Fighting Phantoms: Mammy, Matriarch, and other Ghosts Haunting Black Mothers in the Academy - Yolanda Covington-Ward
12. “I Am My Child’s First Teacher”: Black Motherhood and Homeschooling as Activism Within and Beyond the Academy - Marcelle M. Haddix and LaToya L. Sawyer
13. Black Women Occupying the Academy: Merging Critical Mothering and Mentoring to Survive and Thrive - Julia Jordan Zachery
Contributors
Index
