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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828288203321

Titolo

Black womanist leadership [[electronic resource] ] : tracing the motherline / / edited by Toni C. King and S. Alease Ferguson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4384-3603-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FergusonS. Alease

KingToni C. <1953->

Disciplina

306.874/308996073

Soggetti

African American mothers

Leadership

Womanism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Black Womanist Leadership""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Looking to the Motherline""; ""PART I. The Motherline: Roots and Significance""; ""1. Legacies from Our Mothers""; ""2. Sisterlocking Power: Or How Is Leadership Supposed to Look?""; ""3. Braiding My Place: Developing a Foundational Selfhood through Cross-Racial Mothering""; ""PART II. The Foundations of Mother-Daughter Tutelage""; ""4. The Power of Mother in the Leadership Tradition""; ""5. Hard to Define""

""6.Don't  Waste Your Breath: The Dialectics of Communal Leadership Development""""PART III. Visions of the Motherline Templates for Daughters""; ""7. I Earns My Struttin' Shoes: Blues Women and Leadership""; ""8. Thelma's Self-Sufficiency Paradigm: Every Tub Must Stand on Its Own Bottom""; ""9. I Remember Mama: The Legacy of a Drylongso and Ajabu Leader""; ""10. A Little Lower Than the Angels: A Partial Legacy from My Mother and Mom-Mom Ione""; ""PART IV. Tensions along the Motherline Translating Mother Templates to Daughter Actions""

""11. Mother's Transformative Medicine: An Inoculation against Intergenerational Stagnancy""""12. Contending Forces or Contrariant Strains in the Mother-Daughter Leadership Dynamic""; ""13. Like Mother, Like Daughter: Prophetic Principles from the Motherline A



Sermon""; ""14. Other mothers, Amazons, and Strategies for Leadership in the Public and Private Spheres""; ""Conclusions: Becoming the Motherline Leadership for a New Generation""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""

""Q""""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

Collection of Black women's stories that show how leadership values are transmitted from mothers to daughters.