Description: Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the "Black mother" has become a powerful political category synonymous with crisis, showing how they are often rendered into one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism and the ground zero of Black life.
Review Quotes: "Investigating the fraught position in which Black mothers find themselves and the complex ways they engage with the discourse of crisis that is attached to them, Birthing Black Mothers will generate a wonderfully complex debate in Black feminism. The difficult conversations that Jennifer C. Nash's arguments will incite are well worth the discomfort. This brilliant book is the most exciting piece of scholarship I have read this year."--Khiara M. Bridges, author of "The Poverty of Privacy Rights"