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Mother Wit: Exalting Motherhood while Honoring a Great Mother

Mother Wit: Exalting Motherhood while Honoring a Great Mother

Horne, Malaika B.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Parenting

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 148094551X
ISBN13: 9781480945517
Publisher: Dorrance Pub Co Inc
Published: Jan 16 2018
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book describes in a vivid and poignant manner the remarkable ability of a mid-twentieth century Black woman--living under conditions of Apartheid as practiced in the United States--to overcome harsh and even grotesque societal obstacles, and succeed in rearing six children. That each of them went on to excel in their chosen fields is worthy of serious contemplation. In addition, the reader is provided insight and illumination on still taboo topics such as colorism and intra-group violence that engender and nourish self-hate among many in the African American Community. Moreover, the author's penchant for candor is coupled with a constructive theme of hope and faith in the future.

William M Harvey, PhD, psychologist

This is not just an evocative, at times heart-rending, portrait of an African-American mother but, as well, a colorful depiction of a Mississippi cum St. Louis family grappling with Jim Crow. In well written prose worthy of a cinema production, this book is an instant classic meriting a place on the top shelf alongside Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Richard Wright.

Gerald Charles Horne, PhD, University of Houston

A moving tribute to a devoted mother whose determination, dedication and strong character allowed her family to breach barriers of race, class and economic want to achieve measurable success. Dr. Horne's story of a loving mother with a keen intelligence who sacrificed all for her children is touching, inspiring and above all, instructive.

Gwen Moore, curator, Missouri History Museum

Mother Wit is a love letter, first to Horne's visionary mother Flora and then to the story of imperfect people making their way, together, in an even more horribly imperfect world. This is a story of color, of cruelty, of family and of coming to understand. Horne has written the kind of family history that tells the reader much more than the surface of the story. The lives of her characters, family members across several generations, are built upon the context of racism and all the byproducts thereof. Reading their stories and seeing the strength of Flora and the children she raised, is testament to tenacity and hope.

Faith Sandler, executive director, Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis

Blessed is the mother who inspires her children to have aspirations and shows them the necessary steps to take to make those aspirations a reality. Malaika B. Horne writes, with a captivating style about such a mother, detailing the complex journey to attain seemingly simple goals, with clarity and forthrightness.

Blanche M. Touhill, PhD, chancellor emerita, University of Missouri-St. Louis

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