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What happens when a black mother dies? Or is AWOL because she is addicted? incarcerated? Overwhelmed by poverty, violence, mental or physical illness? Today, increasing mother absence, loss, and the phenomena of unmothered children is bringing a new crisis to African American families and communities. Much has beenw written and discussed about the absence of black males as fathers and the impact on the lives of their children. Little has been written about the absence or loss of black mothers. As an Early Childhood Educator and Special Education teacher, I began to ask scholarly questions to find out. There is a saying, "Be careful what you ask for." I would discover so much more. "I have never been a daughter. My mama had me but I never had her. My mama was absent from each birthday. She did witness my first sweet dark almond on panties, cast approval for lover or husband, or bounce my fat brown babies on her knees. I knew so little about her I found no nourishment for fantasies. She died in car accident in 1953. I was two. She was on her way to Las Vegas, the mississippi of the west. Her mama had told her not to go. My mama said she was going if it was the last thing she did. It

Author

Amọké Kubat

Publisher

[Minneapolis, Minnesota]: Respondability, Inc.

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780615592541

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir