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Motherhood so white a memoir of race, gender, and parenting in America

"When Nefertiti Austin, a single African-American woman, decided to adopt two black children through the foster system, she was unprepared for the fact that there is no place for black women in the 'mommy wars.' Austin set off on her path with no place to seek guidance from others who looked like he...

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Main Author: Austin, Nefertiti (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2019]
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Austin, Nefertiti.
Adoptive parents > United States > Biography.
African American adoptive parents > United States > Biography.
Single parents > United States > Biography.
African American single mothers > United States > Biography.
African American parents > United States > Social conditions.
Autobiographies.
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Summary:"When Nefertiti Austin, a single African-American woman, decided to adopt two black children through the foster system, she was unprepared for the fact that there is no place for black women in the 'mommy wars.' Austin set off on her path with no place to seek guidance from others who looked like her or shared her experience. She soon realized that she would not only have to navigate skepticism from the adoption community, who deal almost exclusively with white women, but surprisingly, from her own family and friends as well. Motherhood So White is an engaging story of family, and one of the first books to examine America's deep-seated racial tension through the lens of parenthood"--
Physical Description:290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-276).
ISBN:9781492679011
1492679011
Author Notes:Author and memoirist Nefertiti Austin writes about the erasure of diverse voices in motherhood. Her work around this topic has been short-listed for literary awards and appeared in the Washington Post, Rebel Girls Boundless, Huffington Post, MUTHA, The Establishment, matermea.com, Essence.com, Adoptive Families magazine, PBS SoCal's To Foster Change and PBS Parents. She was the subject of an article on race and adoption in The Atlantic and appeared on HuffPost Live and One Bad Mother, where she shared her journey to adoption as a single Black woman. Nefertiti's expertise stems from firsthand experience and degrees in U.S. History and African-American Studies. Nefertiti is a former Certified PS-MAPP Trainer, where she co-led classes for participants wanting to attain a license to foster and/or adopt children from fostercare system. She is an alumna of Breadloaf Writers' Conference and VONA, and her first two novels, Eternity and Abandon, helped usher in the Black Romance genre in the mid-1990s.

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