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Black womanist leadership : tracing the motherline / edited by Toni C. King and S. Alease Ferguson

Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 269 pages)
Additional Creators
Ferguson, S. Alease and King, Toni C., 1953-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Legacies from our mothers / Frances K. Trotman -- Sisterlocking power: or how is leadership supposed to look? / Valerie Lee -- Braiding my place: developing a foundational selfhood through cross-racial mothering / Nancy Gibson -- Hard to define / Ceara Flake -- "Don't waste your breath": the dialectics of communal leadership development / Toni C. King -- "I earns my struttin' shoes": blues women and leadership / Judy Massey-Dozier -- Thelma's self-sufficiency paradigm: every tub must stand on its own bottom / S. Alease Ferguson -- I remember Mama: the legacy of a Drylongso and Ajabu leader / Rhunette C. Diggs -- "A little lower than the angels": a partial legacy from my mother and Mom-Mom Ione / Simona J. Hill -- Mother's transformative medicine: an inoculation against intergenerational stagnancy / Sonya M. Turner -- "Contending forces" or contrariant strains in the mother-daughter leadership dynamic / Sandra Y. Govan -- "Like mother, like daughter": prophetic principles from the motherline: a sermon / Leah C.K. Lewis -- Othermothers, Amazons, and strategies for leadership in the public and private spheres / Lakesia D. Johnson.
Summary
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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ISBN
9781438436036 (electronic bk.)
1438436033 (electronic bk.)
9781438436012 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1438436017 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781438436029 (paperback ; alk. paper)
1438436025 (paperback ; alk. paper)
Digital File Characteristics
text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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