Black Sons to Mothers: Memory, Mothering, and Masculinity 'In the Wake'
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| Title: | Black Sons to Mothers: Memory, Mothering, and Masculinity 'In the Wake' |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Martez Files (ORCID |
| Source: | Urban Education. 2026 61(2):255-282. |
| Availability: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 28 |
| Publication Date: | 2026 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Sons, African Americans, Masculinity, Educational Experience, Memory, Feminism, Praxis, African American Family |
| Geographic Terms: | Alabama (Birmingham), Alabama, Arkansas |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00420859241258144 |
| ISSN: | 0042-0859 1552-8340 |
| Abstract: | In this study, two Black sons engage with their mothers' memories as educational life practice. Using endarkened feminist methodology and BlackCrit feminist theory, we explore the impact of Black mothers' lives and educational journeys on the constructions of Black sons' masculinities. We examine Black mother/son relationships within the context of slavery's afterlife, particularly how these relationships map knowledges of structural suffering and insurgent possibilities. Drawing upon the transformative power of Black motherwit, this scholarship emphasizes the need for revolutionary scripts in either cultivating a Black liberatory masculinity or abandoning masculinity projects altogether toward Black freedom aims. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2026 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1493206 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | In this study, two Black sons engage with their mothers' memories as educational life practice. Using endarkened feminist methodology and BlackCrit feminist theory, we explore the impact of Black mothers' lives and educational journeys on the constructions of Black sons' masculinities. We examine Black mother/son relationships within the context of slavery's afterlife, particularly how these relationships map knowledges of structural suffering and insurgent possibilities. Drawing upon the transformative power of Black motherwit, this scholarship emphasizes the need for revolutionary scripts in either cultivating a Black liberatory masculinity or abandoning masculinity projects altogether toward Black freedom aims. |
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| ISSN: | 0042-0859 1552-8340 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00420859241258144 |
