Black womanist leadership : tracing the motherline / edited by Toni C. King and S. Alease Ferguson.

Other author King, Toni C., 1953-
Other author Ferguson, S. Alease.
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxxi, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Writing African American women's leadership -- Looking to the motherline -- The motherline: roots and significance. Legacies from our mothers / Frances K. Trotman. Sisterlocking power: or how is leadership supposed to look? / Valerie Lee. Braiding my place: developing a foundational selfhood through cross-racial mothering / Nancy Gibson -- The foundations of mother-daughter tutelage : l̀dílé: the power of mother in the leadership tradition / Oare' Dozier-Henry. Hard to define / Ceara Flake. "Don't waste your breath": the dialectics of communal leadership development / Toni C. King -- Visions of the motherline: templates for daughters : "I earns my struttin' shoes": blues women and leadership / Judy Massey-Dozier. Thelma's self-sufficiency paradigm: every tub must stand on its own bottom / S. Alease Ferguson I remember Mama: the legacy of a Drylongso and Ajabu leader / Rhunette C. Diggs. "A little lower than the angels": a partial legacy from my mother and Mom-Mom Ione / Simona J. Hill -- Tensions among the motherline: translating mother templates to daughter actions : Mother's transformative medicine: an inoculation against intergenerational stagnancy / Sonya M. Turner. "Contending forces" or contrariant strains in the mother-daughter leadership dynamic / Sandra Y. Govan. "Like mother, like daughter": prophetic principles from the motherline: a sermon / Leah C. K. Lewis. Othermothers, Amazons, and strategies for leadership in the public and private spheres / Lakesia D. Johnson -- Becoming the motherline: leadership for a new generation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010032056
ISBN9781438436012 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1438436017 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781438436029 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1438436025 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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