Our black sons matter : mothers talk about fears, sorrows, and hopes
Item details
- ISBN: 9781442269118 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1442269111 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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xii, 227 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: For the love of our sons / George Yancy -- I. Reflections. -- Black mother/sons / Sara Lomax-Reese -- Once white in America / Jane Lazarre -- A bottle of Mike Brown and Robin Williams / Shelly Bell -- Dark radiance / Becky Thompson and LaMar Delandro -- Why being the lone Black friend of whites will not protect you / Noliwe Rooks -- The box / Tracey Reed Armant -- White mama, Black sons / Heather Johnson -- Watching and waiting / Nicole McJamerson -- The trouble I've seen...and why it matters / Meta G. Carstarphen -- Inside/outside / Susan Hadley -- Black and blue : stressing through to dialogue / Deborah Binkley-Jackson -- A Black Jewish boy facing manhood / Jane Anna Gordon -- II. Essays. -- Sacrificial lambs : how many dead bodies is enough? / Carol E. Henderson -- Reflections of Black motherhood : birthing Black sons / Linda D. Tomlinson -- The war within : respect and the predicament of mothering Black sons / Newtona (Tina) Johnson -- A long ways from home? / Michele Moody-Adams -- T.H.U.G. (talented, humanistic, unique, gifted) : anthropology, sentiments, and narratives of Black mothers and sons / Elisha Oliver -- A fierce love : the unique process of nurturing, educating, and protecting our Black sons / Tracey McCants Lewis -- Through the valley of the shadow of death / Veronica T. Watson -- Mothers and their Black sons : struggling against fears, sorrows, and hope / Blanche Radford Curry -- Regarding Henry / T. Denean Sharpley Whiting -- III. Poems. -- A love poem for Michael Brown / Elisheba Johnson -- Lamentations from a Black mom / Dyan Watson -- for trayvon / Treasure Shields Redmond -- News of you, my son / Sharyn Skeeter -- Death passes twice / Autumn Redcross -- LV. Letters. -- Dear William / Gretchen Givens Generett -- A letter to CJ / Regina Sims Wright -- Killing/saving/loving Black boys / Karsonya Wise Whitehead -- Anger / Jacki Lynn Baynks -- A letter to Dr. King : please keep breathing / Maria del Guadalupe Davidson -- A letter to my sons / Dawn Herd-Clark. |
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Subject: | African American young men African American boys Mothers and sons United States African Americans Family relationships Black lives matter movement |
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