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In the habitus of African American grandmothers: Self-identity, grandmothering, and words of wisdom
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In the habitus of African American grandmothers: Self-identity, grandmothering, and words of wisdom.
Creator
O'Brien, Ellen L., Florida Atlantic University, Brown, Susan Love
Abstract/Description
To test the images and expand upon the knowledge of the African American grandmother as set forth in the scholarly literature, 13 African American grandmothers, who share a southern African American cultural heritage, were interviewed. First, this study explores how each participant developed her self-identify as a grandmother and the emotional depth of that identity. The development of the participants' self-identifies as grandmothers and the emotional depth of their identities are related...
Show moreTo test the images and expand upon the knowledge of the African American grandmother as set forth in the scholarly literature, 13 African American grandmothers, who share a southern African American cultural heritage, were interviewed. First, this study explores how each participant developed her self-identify as a grandmother and the emotional depth of that identity. The development of the participants' self-identifies as grandmothers and the emotional depth of their identities are related to a tripartite model of child involvement articulated as "having," "raising," and "keeping" a child. Second, this study explores how each of the women defines the practice of "grandmothering." Third, this study explores which practices and values the women feel are the most important to pass onto their grandchildren. The findings are interpreted in terms of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice, and the concepts of women-centered networks and other mothers as set forth by Black feminist theorists.
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Date Issued
2000
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15782
Subject Headings
Grandmothers--United States, African American families, African Americans--Social life and customs
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Establishing the Bondmother: Examining the Categorization of Maternal Figures in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Paradise
Title
Establishing the Bondmother: Examining the Categorization of Maternal Figures in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Paradise.
Creator
Tisdale, Ashely, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Literary scholars have been examining and recreating the experiences of “bonded” female characters within Toni Morrison’s novels for decades. However, the distinct experiences of these enslaved women, that are also mothers have not been astutely examined by scholars and deserves more attention. My thesis fleshes out the characterization of several of Morrison’s bonded-mothers and identifies them as a part of a developing controlling image and theory, called the bondmother. Situating these...
Show moreLiterary scholars have been examining and recreating the experiences of “bonded” female characters within Toni Morrison’s novels for decades. However, the distinct experiences of these enslaved women, that are also mothers have not been astutely examined by scholars and deserves more attention. My thesis fleshes out the characterization of several of Morrison’s bonded-mothers and identifies them as a part of a developing controlling image and theory, called the bondmother. Situating these characters within this category allows readers to trace their journeys towards freedom and personal redemption. This character tracing will occur by examining the following Toni Morrison novels: Beloved (1987) and Paradise (1997). In order to fully examine the experiences of these characters it will be necessary for me to expand the definition of bondage and mother.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004696, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004696
Subject Headings
African American families in literature, African American women in literature, Morrison, Toni -- Beloved -- Criticism and interpretation, Morrison, Toni -- Characters -- Mothers, Morrison, Toni -- Paradise -- Criticism and interpretation, Morrison, Toni -- Political and social views, Motherhood in literature, Slavery in literature
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Moving Ever Forward: Reading the Significance of Motion and Space as a Representation of Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
Title
Moving Ever Forward: Reading the Significance of Motion and Space as a Representation of Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
Creator
Richmond, Samantha, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This thesis argues that three models of trauma theory, which include traditional trauma theory, postcolonial trauma theory, and cultural trauma theory, must be joined to fully understand the trauma experienced by African Americans within the novels Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. By implementing these three theories, we can see how each novel’s main character is exploring and learning about African American trauma and better understand how an...
Show moreThis thesis argues that three models of trauma theory, which include traditional trauma theory, postcolonial trauma theory, and cultural trauma theory, must be joined to fully understand the trauma experienced by African Americans within the novels Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. By implementing these three theories, we can see how each novel’s main character is exploring and learning about African American trauma and better understand how an adjustment of space and time creates the possibility for the implementation of trauma theory. Each novel presents a journey, and it is through this movement through space that each character can serve as a witness to African American trauma. This is done in Morrison’s text by condensing the geographical space of the American north and south into one town, which serves to pluralize African American culture. In Whitehead’s text, American history is removed from its chronological place, which creates a duality that instills Freud’s theory of the uncanny within both the character and the reader.
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Date Issued
2017
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004839, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004839
Subject Headings
Psychic trauma., Psychic trauma--African Americans., American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc., Underground Railroad--Fiction., African American families--Fiction., Morrison, Toni.--Song of Solomon--Criticism and interpretation., Whitehead, Colson--1969---Underground railroad--Criticism and interpretation.
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Positive Perspectives on Prevention: Southern Women's Voices on HIV/AIDS in an African American Community
Title
Positive Perspectives on Prevention: Southern Women's Voices on HIV/AIDS in an African American Community.
Creator
Melton, Monica, Beoku-Betts, Josephine, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
Although Black women appear to be more at risk for HIV/AIDS than other women in the U.S., there is little information from positive Black women about positive Black women's prevention perspectives, the failure of the prevention models, and their perspectives on effective prevention measures. Black women with HIV/AIDS are configured primarily as victims, poor, sexually deviant, or inferior moms who pass disease to their children. Research helps to reinforce these misconceptions by primarily...
Show moreAlthough Black women appear to be more at risk for HIV/AIDS than other women in the U.S., there is little information from positive Black women about positive Black women's prevention perspectives, the failure of the prevention models, and their perspectives on effective prevention measures. Black women with HIV/AIDS are configured primarily as victims, poor, sexually deviant, or inferior moms who pass disease to their children. Research helps to reinforce these misconceptions by primarily examining HIV related behaviors outside of a race, class, and gendered framework. Since the perspective of HIV positive Black women are not addressed comprehensively in the design of prevention programs, the eradication of HIV among African American women has not been effective. This research investigates positive Black women's perspectives and concerns on effective HIV prevention informed by their lived experience and situated knowledge. Theories of intersectionality of race, class, gender and stigma, and reciprocal empowerment inform this study. Study results reveal that the threat of being associated with factors of HIV/AIDS intersectional stigma can cut off African American women from their survival systems that help them subvert oppression. Factors that create and maintain these systems are experiences of communal connections, familial relations, and social respect; and are privileged in the HIV prevention decision making process of study participants. Most HIV education, care, and treatment is obtained in public institutions, thus many women are hesitant to seek assistance. Consequently, intersectional stigmas obstruct HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment for African American women. I reframe HIV/AIDS in order to subvert the stigma and discrimination associated with the virus that leaves many Black women cut off from their base. Methodologically, the study is qualitative and situated within Black women's narrative analysis for the systematic examination of individual experience and meaning. I utilize in-depth interviews, participant observation, and some additional ethnographic data. The fieldwork was carried out over several months with the Comprehensive Family AIDS Program in Florida. Thirty in-depth interviews were conducted with HIV positive African American women interviewing them on their position of what constitutes relevant and applicable HIV/AIDS prevention.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000987
Subject Headings
AIDS (Disease) in women--Florida, African American women--Diseases, AIDS (Disease)--Prevention, AIDS (Disease)--Epidemiology, Florida--Comprehensive Family AIDS Program
Format
Document (PDF)