Black Women Mothering & Daughtering During a Dual Pandemic

<p class=ql-align-justify>The contributors of this volume share with the scholarly community how they have learned to strive resist adapt and re-conceptualize Black women's mental health and labor during the dual pandemics of white supremacy and COVID-19. This book is unique in that it calls for the contributing authors to draw upon and reflect on the use of sisterhood and a literacy circle to cope with an economic crisis mass death and racial battle fatigue during a worldwide pandemic. Specifically the invited authors draw inspiration from Venus E. Evans-Winters' book <em>Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry: A Mosaic for Writing Our Daughter's Body </em>as an exemplar of research that both centers the issues and concerns of Black women scholar-practitioner-activists and presents a methodology consistent with Black feminist ways of knowing and expressions. Evans-Winters's theoretical and methodological writings are among the first works in research and gender studies that have successfully interwoven Black feminists' politics spirituality and Africanism with educational research and thought. Using constructed stories from the author's personal narratives <em>Black</em> <em>Women Mothering and Daughtering During a Dual Pandemic: Writing Our Backs </em>addresses themes pertinent to Black women's lives including our socialization and socio-emotional development mother/daughter and other mother-daughter relationships navigating the racial politics of schooling friendships survivorship and grief using non-normative methodological concepts and practices.  </p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>The authors explore concepts such as daughtering politicking mother speak and cultural exchange while employing linguistic expressions such as prose text messages dialogue and personal narrative-firmly planted in authentic Black womanist aesthetics. Furthermore the authors highlight and demonstrate why and how they utilize reading and Black women's literary works to critically reflect meaningfully write heal and do their work in times of peril (Morrison 2019). More specifically this book explores how the authors draw from Black women's cultural literacies in teaching healing mentoring and activism. Throughout the question: How are Black women's literary works as a body of knowledge used in healing spaces to marshal new or forgotten healing methodologies cultural frame of references and spiritual awakenings? The contributing authors address this question from multiple perspectives such as education social work and psychology. </p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Collectively the authors advance Black women's mental wealth as a theoretical and methodological healing modality that meets their multiple identities as spiritual and cultural beings educators daughters mothers sisters healers and social activists. This is the first anthology to explore how Black women's literacy during a state of racial unrest and resistance alongside a global health pandemic shapes our cultural knowledge ways of coping and spiritual endeavors across varied--and often ambiguous contexts. </p><p> </p>