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Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline

Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline

King, Toni C.
Ferguson, S. Alease

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1438436025
ISBN13: 9781438436029
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 1 2011
Pages: 291
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Collection of Black women's stories that show how leadership values are transmitted from mothers to daughters

Featuring the stories of fourteen Black women scholars, Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline offers a culturally based model of Black women's leadership practices, and examines the mother-daughter transmission of these skills. The personal narratives fit into a storytelling tradition that reveals the ways Black mothers and women of the community-the Motherline-teach girls the ways women lead. The essays present a range of different practical and theoretical issues of leadership and development, including mother nurture, emulation of and divergence from core values, internalized oppression, self determination, representation of the physical self, guardianship/governance of the body, cooperative economics, activism, contentiousness with or differentiation from the mother, and negotiation of leadership across public and private spheres. Together, they make a compelling argument for the necessity of continuing to teach the cultural and gender-specific resistance to oppression that has been passed along the Motherline, and to adapt this Motherline tradition to the lives and needs of women and girls in the 21st century.

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