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Freeing Black Girls
A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering
- 241 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
In Freeing Black Girls, Tamura Lomax offers an insurgent feminist love letter to Black girls, women, mothers, and othermothers. Exploring what it means to mother Black children in the twenty-first century, Lomax shares her journey from her traditionalist Black girlhood to finding the path to revolutionary Black motherhood. Along the way, she shows how all Black people are endangered by white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchal dominance and emphasizes the power of looking and talking back. Lomax insists on Black feminist ways of living that value and nourish whole persons, sketching a radical dream that will allow Black women and girls to survive America while being able to love themselves, others, and collective Black freedom. Ultimately, Lomax declares that Black women and girls are emphatically not defective, second-class, or immanent nurturers; they are sacred and revolutionary beings who deserve to live a life free of predation, patriarchy, misrecognition, misogynoir, and violence.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2025Print ISBN
9781478028376
9781478024774
eBook ISBN
9781478060550
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Author’s Note
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Toxic Literacies: Good Black Mothers, Endangered Black Boys, and Invisible Black Girls
- 1. Black Girls Matter: Letter to My Fourteen-Year-Old Self
- 2. "F*ck Y’all Feminism": Black Girls, P-Valley, Rape Culture, and Erotic Power
- 3. "Break My Soul": Precarity and Resurrection in Evangelical Heteropatriarchal Antiblack America
- 4. Emancipating Proverbs 31: Liberating Rough, Nasty, and Aggressive Black Girls to Women
- 5. Ordinary or Insurgent? From Toxic Femininity to Revolutionary Mothering
- Coda. Toward Sanctuary (and Loving Black Boys): Black Feminist Mothering, an Alternative Literacy, Philosophy, and Practice
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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