HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: African-American Culture
7 Apr 2016
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Mammy figure*** spoken in tutorial about (look back on notes) Black woman described as a faithful servant who looks take care of the white children. All cultures have a standpoint of understanding the world. A black woman standpoint is based on their own experiences of being black woman . From their own experiences they must create their standpoint and use their counter narraive. Mothering is oten diferent for african american women. Concerns of racial ethnic mother work include: keeping the child born to u, physical survival of the children, teaching them resistance and giving them their history. Keeping the child born to you: urban white middle class woman can assume that the child will be born healthy, and they would survive bearing any accidents . There"s a high rate of african american children being taken away from their parents and put into foster care.
