Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood
Dawn Marie Dow, "Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood"
English | ISBN: 0520300327 | 2019 | 272 pages | EPUB | 576 KB
English | ISBN: 0520300327 | 2019 | 272 pages | EPUB | 576 KB
Mothering While Black examines the complex lives of the African American middle class—in particular, black mothers and the strategies they use to raise their children to maintain class status while simultaneously defining and protecting their children’s “authentically black” identities. Sociologist Dawn Marie Dow shows how the frameworks typically used to research middle-class families focus on white mothers’ experiences, inadequately capturing the experiences of African American middle- and upper-middle-class mothers. These limitations become apparent when Dow considers how these mothers apply different parenting strategies for black boys and for black girls, and how they navigate different expectations about breadwinning and childrearing from the African American community. At the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, work, family, and culture,
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