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Title: Black Sons to Mothers: Memory, Mothering, and Masculinity 'In the Wake'
Language: English
Authors: Martez Files (ORCID 0000-0001-6802-5851), T. Elon Dancy II, Tonya B. Perry, Gwendolyn Eskridge Dancy
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.
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