Black Women and Da ’Rona

Black Women and Da ’Rona
Author: Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2023-04-18
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0816548536

"Deliberately writing against archival erasure and death driven logics of anti-Blackness, this volume chronicles Black women's aliveness, ethics of care, and rituals of healing. Nineteen contributors from interdisciplinary fields and diverse backgrounds explore Black feminine community, consciousness, ethics of care, spirituality, and social critique. They situate Black women's multidimensional experiences with COVID-19 and other violences that affect their lives. The stories they tell are connected and interwoven, bound together by anti-Black gendered COVID necropolitics and commitments to creating new spaces for breathing, healing and wellness"--

Black Women and da ’Rona

Black Women and da ’Rona
Author: Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2023-04-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 081654963X

Rooted in the ways Black women understand their lives, this collection archives practices of healing, mothering, and advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing that Black women have been living in pandemics as far back as colonialism and enslavement, this volume acknowledges that records of the past—from the 1918 flu pandemic to the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic—often erase the existence and experiences of Black women as a whole. Writing against this archival erasure, this collection consciously recenters the real-time experiences and perspectives of care, policy concerns, grief, and joy of Black women throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Nineteen contributors from interdisciplinary fields and diverse backgrounds explore Black feminine community, consciousness, ethics of care, spirituality, and social critique. They situate Black women’s multidimensional experiences with COVID-19 and other violences that affect their lives. The stories they tell are connected and interwoven, bound together by anti-Black gendered COVID necropolitics and commitments to creating new spaces for breathing, healing, and wellness. Ultimately, this time-warping analysis shows how Black women imagine a more just society, rapidly adapt to changing experiences, and innovate ethics of care even in the midst of physical distancing, which can be instructive for thinking of new ways of living both during and beyond the era of COVID-19. Contributors Shamara Wyllie Alhassan Sharnnia Artis Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards Candace S. Brown Jenny Douglas Kaja Dunn Onisha Etkins Rhonda M. Gonzales Endia Hayes Ashley E. Hollingshead Kendra Jason Julia S. Jordan-Zachery Stacie LeSure Janaka B. Lewis Michelle Meggs Nitya Mehrotra Sherine Andreine Powerful Marjorie Shavers Breauna Marie Spencer Tehia Starker Glass Amber Walker

Writing Blackgirls' and Women's Health Science

Writing Blackgirls' and Women's Health Science
Author: Jameta Nicole Barlow
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1666911755

This field of Black girls’ and women’s health (BGWH) science is both transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. As such, the contributors to this edited collection offer a unique lens to BGWH science, expanding our collective scientific worldviews. The contributing authors draw upon their ontological and epistemological knowledge to formulate pathways and inform methodologies for doing research and praxis to address BGWH. Each contributor draws upon these knowledges and offers the reader a way to better understand how their framing and writing can create change in the health of Black girls and women.

Lavender Fields

Lavender Fields
Author: Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2023-01-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816547378

Lavender Fields uses autoethnography to explore how Black girls and women are living with and through COVID-19. It centers their pain, joys, and imaginations for a more just future as we confront all the inequalities that COVID-19 exposes. Black women and girls in the United States are among the hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of illnesses, deaths, evictions, and increasing economic inequality. Riffing off Alice Walker’s telling of her search for Zora Neal Hurston, the authors of these essays and reflections offer raw tellings of Black girls’ and women’s experiences written in real time, as some of the contributors battled COVID-19 themselves. The essays center Black girls and women and their testimonies in hopes of moving them from the margin to the center. With a diversity of voices and ages, this volume taps into the Black feminine interior, that place where Audre Lorde tells us that feelings lie, to access knowledge—generational, past, and contemporary—to explore how Black women navigate COVID-19. Using womanism and spirituality, among other modalities, the authors explore deep feelings, advancing Black feminist theorizing on Black feminist praxis and methodology. In centering the stories of Black girls and women’s experiences with COVID-19, this work brings much-needed justice and equity to conversations about the pandemic. Just as Walker worked diligently to find Hurston, Lavender Fields attempts to “find” Black women amid all we are experiencing, ensuring visibility and attention. Contributors Tamaya Bailey reelaviolette botts-ward Kyrah K. Brown Brianna Y. Clark Kenyatta Dawson LeConté J. Dill Maryam O. Funmilayo Brandie Green Courtney Jackson Sara Jean-Francois Julia S. Jordan-Zachery Angela K. Lewis-Maddox Annet Matebwe Mbali Mazibuko Radscheda Nobles Nimot Ogunfemi J. Mercy Okaalet Chizoba Uzoamaka Okoroma Peace Ossom-Williamson Elizabeth Peart

Frontera Madre(hood)

Frontera Madre(hood)
Author: Cynthia Bejarano
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2024
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0816546681

Reflecting on the concept of frontera madre(hood) as both a methodological and theoretical framework, this collection embodies the challenges and resiliency of mothering along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. More than thirty contributors examine how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies.

Sisters of the Yam

Sisters of the Yam
Author: bell hooks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317588312

In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle, hooks articulates the link between self-recovery and political resistance. Both an expression of the joy of self-healing and the need to be ever vigilant in the struggle for equality, Sisters of the Yam continues to speak to the experience of black womanhood.

The Sisters Are Alright

The Sisters Are Alright
Author: Tamara Winfrey Harris
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2015-07-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1626563527

"Everyone seems to have an opinion about American black women--they need to get married, change their hair, act like 'ladies, ' and so on. Celebrated writer Tamara Winfrey Harris writes a searing account of being a black woman in America and explains why it's time for black women to speak for themselves"--Provided by publisher

The Sisters Are Alright, Second Edition

The Sisters Are Alright, Second Edition
Author: Tamara Winfrey Harris
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 1523093897

A slew of harmful stereotypes continues to follow Black women. The second edition of this bestseller debunks vicious misconceptions rooted in long-standing racism and shows that Black women are still alright. When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra—servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel—followed close behind. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, big screen portrayals, and hit song lyrics. Author Tamara Winfrey Harris reveals that while emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures. The latest edition of this bestseller features new interviews with diverse Black women about marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more. Alongside these authentic experiences and fresh voices, Winfrey Harris explores the evolution of stereotypes of Black women, with new real-life examples, such as the rise of blackfishing and digital blackface (which help white women rise to fame) and the media's continued fascination with Black women's sexuality (as with Cardi B or Megan Thee Stallion). The second edition also includes a new chapter on Black women and power that explores how persistent stereotypes challenge Black women's recent leadership and achievements in activism, community organizing, and politics. The chapter includes interviews with activists and civic leaders and interrogates media coverage and perceptions of Stacey Abrams, Vice President Kamala Harris, and others. Winfrey Harris exposes anti–Black woman propaganda and shows how real Black women are pushing back against racist, distorted cartoon versions of themselves. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a Black woman in America.

The College Diaries

The College Diaries
Author: DeAsia Paige
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2020-12-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781636765389

The College Diaries: How a Budding Black Feminist Found Her Voice explores the intersection of race, gender and culture. In her first novel, author DeAsia Paige highlights the college experience of a young Black woman trying to understand the world around her, while studying at a predominately white institution. Through experiences like Donald Trump becoming the 45th President of the United States to the inaugural Women's March in 2016 to the moments in recent history where Black bodies perished from police brutality, this book gives a voice to those who are often silenced and ignored. This must-read book is for every Black woman who may be starting their college journey or simply trying to understand how they fit into society - one that often excludes Black women's stories. Although Black women are often viewed as monolithic, here you'll discover perspectives and stories that convey how Black women can be more than just one thing, perhaps everything, if they want to be. The College Diaries was written in the hope of empowering Black women while encouraging them to share their stories fearlessly.

Da Queen Document

Da Queen Document
Author: Bakari Atiba
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781729189979

We as African men must commit time and energy to the struggle and our women. Regardless of where we choose to be, the African Woman must be the model of womanhood. Da Queen Document honors African Woman and their greatness. Providing insight not her rightful position in the struggle of our people. Black Women must once again carry herself with pride, self-respect, luv, honor and integrity. Our ancestors sacrificed and paid the ultimate price to provide what African Woman should be. Sistas it's time for you to develop, cultivate, and make the transformation into the Pan-African Woman. Remember, you were never B's or Ho's, but were our greatest strength and power. Remember to understand and luv yourself. Da Queen Document is powerful and full of ideas and concepts for the greatest of African Women.