Freeing Black Girls
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aspirational black patriarchy
Author_Tamura Lomax
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fascism
heteronormative black gender theology
misogynoir
misrecognition
Nina Simone
P-Valley
patriarchal seduction
Proverbs 31
rape culture
reactionary womanhood
revolution of values
revolutionary black feminist mothering
revolutionary mothering
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toxic femininity
toxic masculinity
toxic white Christian supremacy
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virtuous woman
white liberalism
white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy
womanist theology
Product details
- ISBN 9781478024774
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Freeing Black Girls, Tamura Lomax offers an insurgent feminist love letter to Black girls, women, mothers, and othermothers. Exploring what it means to mother Black children in the twenty-first century, Lomax shares her journey from her traditionalist Black girlhood to finding the path to revolutionary Black motherhood. Along the way, she shows how all Black people are endangered by white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchal dominance and emphasizes the power of looking and talking back. Lomax insists on Black feminist ways of living that value and nourish whole persons, sketching a radical dream that will allow Black women and girls to survive America while being able to love themselves, others, and collective Black freedom. Ultimately, Lomax declares that Black women and girls are emphatically not defective, second-class, or immanent nurturers; they are sacred and revolutionary beings who deserve to live a life free of predation, patriarchy, misrecognition, misogynoir, and violence.
Tamura Lomax is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University and author of Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture, also published by Duke University Press.
