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Author:   Tamura Lomax
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781478024774

ISBN 10:   1478024771
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   31 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Author’s Note  ix Acknowledgments  xiii Introduction. Toxic Literacies: Good Black Mothers, Endangered Black Boys, and Invisible Black Girls  1 1. Black Girls Matter: Letter to My Fourteen-Year-Old Self  25 2.“F*ck Y’all Feminism”: Black Girls, P-Valley, Rape Culture, and Erotic Power  37 3. “Break My Soul”: Precarity and Resurrection in Evangelical Heteropatriarchal Antiblack America  63 4. Emancipating Proverbs 31: Liberating Rough, Nasty, and Aggressive Black Girls to Women  91 5. Ordinary or Insurgent? From Toxic Femininity to Revolutionary Mothering  119 Coda. Toward Sanctuary (and Loving Black Boys): Black Feminist Mothering, an Alternative Literacy, Philosophy, and Practice  145 Notes  157 Bibliography  207 Index

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“Freeing Black Girls is an honest reckoning with one of our most sacred institutions-motherhood. Tamura Lomax’s book raises critical questions about the emotional experiences and lives of Black girls, women, mothers, and othermothers in a society that is both antiblack and deeply invested in heteropatriarchy. Lomax provides readers with a fresh and nuanced perspective on how Black feminism can free us from the political and spiritual prisons of misogyny and racial animus.” - Kaila Adia Story, author of (The Rainbow Ain't Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity) “I love this book. Tamura Lomax’s gorgeous voice pulls you toward her as she shares herself in all her rich variety. Her struggle is righteous and rebellious and subversive. She starts as an obedient Black church girl and emerges a revolutionary Black mother dismantling toxic masculinity and femininity along the way. Read and emerge with her. She is thinking about each of us as she helps you see and know her. She shows us that it is possible to make a new antiracist feminist world. This intimate personal telling is also inclusively specifically universal, which is an amazing feat.” - Zillah Eisenstein, author of (Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution)

Author Information

Tamura Lomax is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University and author of Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture, also published by Duke University Press.

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