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“The Bone Collectors” Comments for Sorrow as Artifact: Black Radical Mothering in Times of Terror[Note 1. I want to thank the organizers of the panel, ...]
Author(s) -
Davis DánaAin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1111/traa.12056
Subject(s) - sorrow , political radicalism , politics , black women , artifact (error) , gender studies , sociology , radical right , black male , political science , psychology , social psychology , law , neuroscience
This essay is based on comments for the panel Sorrow as Artifact: Black Radical Mothering in Times of Terror. Historically, Black mothers have faced the loss of their children in a myriad of ways, through enslavement, infant mortality, and police and state sanctioned violence. The normalizations of these losses are violent in and of themselves. In this discussion, we see that Black motherhood and mothering cannot escape being a site of political struggle animated by the labor of pain and terror. Simultaneously, radical Black mothering challenges the erasure of Black children and their exclusion from societal concern.