Black Women and Motherhood
Black Women and Motherhood
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黑人妇女和母性
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-137-12103-5_9
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发表时间：
2005
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影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
P. Collins
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作者：
P. Collins
琼·乔丹的话尖锐地表达了黑人女权主义者通过对黑人母亲身份进行以非洲为中心的女权主义分析来荣誉我们母亲的牺牲的必要性。直到最近，对黑人母亲身份的分析在很大程度上一直是男性的领域，无论是白色还是黑人，男性对黑人妇女作为母亲的假设一直占上风。黑人母亲被指责不管教子女、阉割儿子、贬低女儿的女性地位以及阻碍子女的学业成就。1她们列举了高离婚率、女性为户主的家庭和非婚生子女，白色男性学者和他们的代表声称，非洲裔美国人的母亲在据称恶化的家庭结构中行使不自然的权力。乔丹观察到的美国母亲从这些记录中消失了。
June Jordan’s words poignantly express the need for Black feminists to honor our mothers’ sacrifice by developing an Afrocentric feminist analysis of Black motherhood. Until recently analyses of Black motherhood have largely been the province of men, both white and Black, and male assumptions about Black women as mothers have prevailed. Black mothers have been accused of failing to discipline their children, of emasculating their sons, of defeminizing their daughters, and of retarding their children’s academic achievement.1 Citing high rates of divorce, female-headed households, and out-of-wedlock births, white male scholars and their representatives claim that African-American mothers wield unnatural power in allegedly deteriorating family structures.2 The African-American mothers observed by Jordan vanish from these accounts.