Black Womanist Leadership, livre ebook

Featuring the stories of fourteen Black women scholars, Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline offers a culturally based model of Black women's leadership practices, and examines the mother-daughter transmission of these skills. The personal narratives fit into a storytelling tradition that reveals the ways Black mothers and women of the community—the Motherline—teach girls the "ways women lead." The essays present a range of different practical and theoretical issues of leadership and development, including mother nurture, emulation of and divergence from core values, internalized oppression, self determination, representation of the physical self, guardianship/governance of the body, cooperative economics, activism, contentiousness with or differentiation from the mother, and negotiation of leadership across public and private spheres. Together, they make a compelling argument for the necessity of continuing to teach the cultural and gender-specific resistance to oppression that has been passed along the Motherline, and to adapt this Motherline tradition to the lives and needs of women and girls in the 21st century.
Preface: Writing African American Women’s Leadership
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Looking to the Motherline
Part I. The Motherline: Roots and Significance
1. Legacies from Our Mothers
Frances K. Trotman
2. Sisterlocking Power: Or How Is Leadership Supposed to Look?
Valerie Lee
3. Braiding My Place: Agency and Foundational Selfhood through Cross-Racial Mothering
Nancy Gibson
Part II. The Foundations of Mother-Daughter Tutelage
4. Ìdílé: The Power of Mother in the Leadership Tradition
Oare’ Dozier-Henry
5. Hard to Define
Ceara Flake
6. “Don’t Waste Your Breath”: The Dialectics of Communal Leadership Development
Toni C. King
Part III. Visions of the Motherline: Templates for Daughters
7. “I Earns My Struttin’ Shoes”: Blues Women and Leadership
Judy M. Dozier
8. Thelma’s Self-Sufficiency Paradigm: Every Tub Must Stand on Its Own Bottom
S. Alease Ferguson
9. I Remember Mama: The Legacy of a Drylongso and Ajabu Leader
Rhunette C. Diggs
10. “A Little Lower Than the Angels”: A Partial Legacy from My Mother and Mom-Mom Ione
Simona J. Hill
Part IV. Tensions along the Motherline: Translating Mother Templates to Daughter Actions
11. Mother’s Transformative Medicine: An Inoculation against Intergenerational Stagnancy
Sonya Turner
12. “Contending Forces” or Contrariant Strains in the Mother-Daughter Leadership Dynamic
Sandra Y. Govan
13. “Like Mother, Like Daughter”: Prophetic Principles from the Motherline—A Sermon
Leah C. K. Lewis
14. Othermothers, Amazons, and Strategies for Leadership in the Public and Private Spheres
Lakesia D. Johnson
Conclusions: Becoming the Motherline—Leadership for a New Generation
Contributors
Index