Mothering through My Pain (WIP)
Abstract
Black women’s voices and historical contributions have been dismissed, and even excluded, making it difficult for their cultural knowledge to be transmitted to future generations. Black women battle with an unsettled consciousness from subscribing to the normalization of what dominant culture defines as good mothering. This study uses Black feminism to examine single Black mothers who navigated the negative images of the welfare queen and the matriarch. This narrative study used Black feminism to examine the stories from single, Black mothers and their daughters. The purpose was to investigate Black mothers and their daughters lived experience to understand their struggles and resistance. Purposeful sampling was used to select seven single, Black mother- daughter dyads, both agreeing, to participate in the study. The participants answered semi-structured questions. Using Black feminism as a guide to explore participants’ stories, the researcher identified that Black women may shift through the childhood, teen, and womanhood stages. In each stage, the mother-daughter shared oppressions presented noticeable changes in their mother-daughter relationship. The analysis further revealed that a single, Black mother-daughter dyads managed their household through various levels of interdependence as the daughter aged.
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Recommended Citation
Surrency, Yolanda E., "Mothering through My Pain (WIP)" (2021). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 19.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2021/2021/19
Mothering through My Pain (WIP)
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Black women’s voices and historical contributions have been dismissed, and even excluded, making it difficult for their cultural knowledge to be transmitted to future generations. Black women battle with an unsettled consciousness from subscribing to the normalization of what dominant culture defines as good mothering. This study uses Black feminism to examine single Black mothers who navigated the negative images of the welfare queen and the matriarch. This narrative study used Black feminism to examine the stories from single, Black mothers and their daughters. The purpose was to investigate Black mothers and their daughters lived experience to understand their struggles and resistance. Purposeful sampling was used to select seven single, Black mother- daughter dyads, both agreeing, to participate in the study. The participants answered semi-structured questions. Using Black feminism as a guide to explore participants’ stories, the researcher identified that Black women may shift through the childhood, teen, and womanhood stages. In each stage, the mother-daughter shared oppressions presented noticeable changes in their mother-daughter relationship. The analysis further revealed that a single, Black mother-daughter dyads managed their household through various levels of interdependence as the daughter aged.
