Queen mothers : articulating the spirit of black women teacher-leaders

• Other Authors: Jeffries, Rhonda B. 1965- (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., 2019.
• Subjects: African American mothers.; African American women.; Women, Black.; Leadership in women.; African American women in the professions.; African American women educators.; Education > Teacher & Student Mentoring.; Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.; Teaching skills and techniques.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806606535
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64113-727-0
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)

"Black women's experiences functioning as mothers, teachers and leaders are confounding and complex. Queen Mothers from Ghanaian tradition are revered as the leaders of their matrilineal families and the teachers of the high chiefs (Mùller, 2013; Stoeltje, 1997). Conversely, the influence...

Table of Contents:

• Hail to the queens: A preface / Rhonda Baynes Jeffries
• Chapter 1. If your mother is a queen... Teachable moments on leading and living to serve / Rhonda Baynes Jeffries
• Chapter 2. Black women intellectuals: Othering, mothering, resilience, and madness / Robin Hughes, Lori Patton Davis, and Ronda C. Henry Anthony
• Chapter 3. Look on me and be renewed: Black mothers as scholar-activists in teacher education / Tambra Jackson and Natasha Flowers
• Chapter 4. They must get it, they must learn: Exploring teaching as community mothering for a multi-generational mississippi family of black women teacher-leaders / Brenda G. Harris and Cleveland Hayes
• Chapter 5. Reclaiming my time: A reflection of my journey as a black woman in the field / Kristal Moore Clemons
• Chapter 6. How I made it over: Tales of triumph and truth from black women educators / Rebecca George and Alexanderia T. Smith
• Chapter 7. Narratives of resistance: The experiences of black women as teachers, leaders, mothers, and academics / Kerry-Ann Escayg, Alana Butler, Danita Webb, Tanya Murray, and Shelley Henderson
• Chapter 8. On the process of becoming: Black women academics othermothering from the margins / Daniella Cook and Gretchen Generett
• Chapter 9. We feel like going on: Negotiating troubled waters through spiritual sistering / Crystal Hill Morton and Mercedes Cannon
• Chapter 10. Still lifting as we climb: Sisters of the academy on being queen mothers / Dannielle Davis, Denise Davis-Maye, Claudine Turner, and Kaye Thompson-Rogers
• Chapter 11. Queen bey: A visualyrical investigation of beyoncé as feminist, sex symbol, mother, and activist / Devair Jeffries and Laura Waringer
• Chapter 12. Black women in leadership using spirituality as a buffer / M. Michelle Rosemond and Delila Owens
• Chapter 13. African American women in the civil rights movement / Coyet Greene
• Chapter 14. From boys to men: A case study of black mothers successfully launching their sons into college or careers / Yasha Jones Becton
• Chapter 15. When grandma is your mom: An auto/ethnography on loss & other-mothering in one Caribbean-canadian family / Anita Jack-Davies
• Chapter 16. How can I be like you? A tri-vocal account of intergenerational mentoring and queen mothering / Gloria Boutte, Gwenda Greene, and Damara Hightower
• Biographies.