Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy [Paperback]

A groundbreaking exploration of Black women navigating motherhood and academia.Laboring Positionsdisrupts the dominant discourse on academic womens mothering experiences. This collection centers Black women's voices, often silenced within the disembodied, patriarchal, and increasingly neoliberal work environment of academia.

This volume acknowledges the institutional challenges facing caregiving academics, while expanding the conversation by speaking against the private/public spheres approach.Laboring Positionsprivileges the hybridity between Black womens mothering experiences and their working lives within and beyond the academy.

Explore diverse perspectives that offer cogent starting points to interrogate the cultural, political, and economic hierarchies of the academy. Discover themes that privilege Black mothering as central in the narratives, research, and models of existence and resistance for Black womens survival. This collection is for academics, students, and anyone interested in Black women's experiences in higher education. Now is the time to amplify these voices and challenge the status quo.

Sekile Nzinga-Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD in Human Development from the University of Maryland and has an MSW from The Ohio State University. Her current research focuses on the women of color in academe, Black women’s mothering experiences and practices; and women’s working lives.