The Hands of Our Mothers: The Survival of Black Motherhood Through COVID-19 & the Uprisings

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Title (Dublin Core)

Description (Dublin Core)

My project sought to examine and understand the historical resilience of Black motherhood and its relation to the life altering pandemic, COVID-19 and racially driven uprisings against systematic oppression; How Black motherhood and resistance through Black motherhood adapted, how it’s changed and what new radical resistance through motherhood was conjured in face of the pandemic and race clarity. As an autoethnographic account this research project was centered around my experience of motherhood and communal connections, as well as the experiences of Black mothers and birth workers. The political positioning of Black mothers was considered through essays and poetry written, as well as photos during the lockdowns in relation to the concepts of birth and death, the idea of radical mothering and activism, and the umbrella term of community.

Senior undergrad majoring in Africana Studies

Date (Dublin Core)

September 17, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Assata (Diamond) Gonzalez

Cover art by Tiffany Montell

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Assata (Diamond) Gonzalez

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

summer research

Partner (Dublin Core)

Brooklyn College

Type (Dublin Core)

text

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Race & Ethnicity

English Neighborhoods

English Gender & Sexuality

English Home & Family Life

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

motherhood

race

class

gender

pandemic

Brooklyn

New York

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

My story relates to my experiences with motherhood, race, class and gender in a Brooklyn neighborhood during a Pandemic.

Collection (Dublin Core)

English Motherhood

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

9/17/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

9/17/2020

9/28/2020

10/26/2020

Date Created (Dublin Core)

2020

Rights (Dublin Core)

I agree to a CC NC-ND license

Item sets

Covid 19