An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood by Renata Harden Ferdinand

An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood by Renata Harden Ferdinand

This is the first full-length explicitly identified autoethnographic text on African American motherhood. It shows the lived experiences of Black motherhood, when mothering is shaped by race, gender and class, and mothers must navigate not only their own, but also their children's positions in society.

"The very crux of the matter—the bone, the breadth, the soul of Ferdinand’s book— is that every Black woman is part of the great tapestry of stories that existed before herThat we must, without question, learn and relearn ourselves by having a simultaneous, multi-generational conversation with the Black women who raised us, those who inspired us, those who have hurt us, and those we seek to love and nurture. Renata Ferdinand’s Things I Tell My Daughter is a brilliantly written, joyful and humorous endeavor—one that reimagines, unapologetically, the power of having a "dangerous Black body" that knows its worth. It is masterfully done. Quite simply, it is the book that we need right now."

Monique Ferrell is an award-winning writer, whose work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and received honors from the Black Caucus of The American Library Association (BCALA).

Renata Harden Ferdinand is currently Acting Chair of the Department of African American Studies at New York City College of Technology, USA. She is the recipient of the 2018 Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award from The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI), affiliate of the National Communication Association, for best published essay.

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ISBN 13	9780367422318
ISBN 10	036742231X
Title	An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood
Author	Renata Harden Ferdinand
Series	Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2021-11-30
Number of pages	148
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