Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy

A groundbreaking exploration of Black women navigating motherhood and academia.Laboring Positions disrupts the dominant discourse on academic women's mothering experiences. This collection centers Black women's voices, often silenced within the disembodied, patriarchal, and increasingly neoliberal work environment of academia.

This volume acknowledges the institutional challenges facing caregiving academics, while expanding the conversation by speaking against the private/public spheres approach. Laboring Positions privileges the hybridity between Black women's mothering experiences and their working lives within and beyond the academy.

Explore diverse perspectives that offer cogent starting points to interrogate the cultural, political, and economic hierarchies of the academy. Discover themes that privilege Black mothering as central in the narratives, research, and models of existence and resistance for Black women's survival. This collection is for academics, students, and anyone interested in Black women's experiences in higher education. Now is the time to amplify these voices and challenge the status quo.