TY - JOUR
T1 - Chicago African American mothers' power of resistance
T2 - Designing Spaces of Hope in global contexts
AU - Mendenhall, Ruby
AU - Linear, Taylor Imani A.
AU - McKee, Malaika W.
AU - Lamers, Nicole A.
AU - Mouawad, Michel Bondurand
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by Emerald Publishing Limited.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Black feminist scholars describe resistance as Black women's efforts to push back against ideologies and stereotypes that objectify them as the other. The contested sites are often neighborhoods, schools, the media, corporations, and government agencies. W. E. B. DuBois and Audre Lorde both spoke about a dual consciousness among Black women, and the larger Black population, that included the power of self-definition. This particular study centers the lived experiences of African American women living in Englewood, a neighborhood with high levels of violence in Chicago. Using data from 93 in-depth interviews, this study illustrates Black mothers' efforts to resist ideologies and stereotypes about their mothering, beauty, socioeconomic status, etc. This study also centers their voices and lived experiences to capture the power they express by engaging in self-definition. Self-definition includes descriptions of themselves, their current situations and the changes they would like to see in their neighborhoods and the larger U.S. society. This chapter ends by discussing the implications of the findings in relation to two programs developed to help these mothers work toward neighborhood change called DREAM (Developing Responses to Poverty through Education And Meaning), and De.SH(ie) (Designing Spaces of Hope (interiors and exteriors)), a collaborative which seeks to remedy the paradoxical existence of spaces of hope and spaces of despair through an innovative approach that melds Architecture, African American Studies, Sociology, and beyond.
AB - Black feminist scholars describe resistance as Black women's efforts to push back against ideologies and stereotypes that objectify them as the other. The contested sites are often neighborhoods, schools, the media, corporations, and government agencies. W. E. B. DuBois and Audre Lorde both spoke about a dual consciousness among Black women, and the larger Black population, that included the power of self-definition. This particular study centers the lived experiences of African American women living in Englewood, a neighborhood with high levels of violence in Chicago. Using data from 93 in-depth interviews, this study illustrates Black mothers' efforts to resist ideologies and stereotypes about their mothering, beauty, socioeconomic status, etc. This study also centers their voices and lived experiences to capture the power they express by engaging in self-definition. Self-definition includes descriptions of themselves, their current situations and the changes they would like to see in their neighborhoods and the larger U.S. society. This chapter ends by discussing the implications of the findings in relation to two programs developed to help these mothers work toward neighborhood change called DREAM (Developing Responses to Poverty through Education And Meaning), and De.SH(ie) (Designing Spaces of Hope (interiors and exteriors)), a collaborative which seeks to remedy the paradoxical existence of spaces of hope and spaces of despair through an innovative approach that melds Architecture, African American Studies, Sociology, and beyond.
KW - African American women
KW - Lived experience
KW - Mothering
KW - Resistance
KW - Stereotypes
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U2 - 10.1108/S1479-358X20140000012019
DO - 10.1108/S1479-358X20140000012019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029483393
SN - 1479-358X
VL - 12
SP - 409
EP - 428
JO - Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis
JF - Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis
ER -