Black Sisterhoods: Paradigms and Praxis

Denise Davis Maye, Sophia Rahming, Jill Andrews, Tamara Bertrand J

• Publisher: Demeter Press
• Year: 2022
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781772583885
• Subtopic: Black Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Sisterhood is oft elusive, if not a misunderstood concept. Despite all the factors that could impede the development, elevation, and maintenance of sistering relationships, Black women continue to acknowledge the value of sisterhoods. Sistering offers a lifeline of support and validation. Holding membership in an empowering woman-centered relationship is a special kind of privilege. The authors in this volume contest any assumption that sisterhood is limited to blood relationships and physical proximity. In this volume, we consider sisterhood simultaneously as paradigm and praxis. We approach Sisterhood as Paradigm and attempt to parse out the nature of Sisterhood as it is understood in Black communities in the United States. We hope to convey an organized set of ideas about "sisterhood" to create sisterhood as a model of interaction or way of being with one another, specifically among Black women. As we consider how sisterhood could be enacted as practice. Using Sisterhood as a framework, we explore Sisterhood as Peer Support, examining how Black women provide support to peers in academic and professional settings. we embark on a provision of applied exemplars of sistering in emerging digital media in Digital Sisterhood.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Black Women Defining, Enacting, and Shifting Sisterhood: An Introduction
• SECTION I
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• SECTION II
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• SECTION III
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Notes on Contributors
• Deepest appreciation to Demeter’s monthly Donors