{"product_id":"freeing-black-girls-a-black-feminist-bible-on-racism-and-revolutionary-mothering-hardback-9781478024774","title":"Freeing Black Girls; A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering (Hardback) 9781478024774","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFreeing Black Girls\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTamura Lomax (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478024774\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 15 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.476 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFreeing Black Girls\u003c\/i\u003e 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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFreeing Black Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, Tamura Lomax offers an insurgent feminist love letter to Black girls, women, mothers, and othermothers. Exploring what it means to mother Black children in the twenty-first century, Lomax shares her journey from her traditionalist Black girlhood to finding the path to revolutionary Black motherhood. Along the way, she shows how all Black people are endangered by white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchal dominance and emphasizes the power of looking and talking back. Lomax insists on Black feminist ways of living that value and nourish whole persons, sketching a radical dream that will allow Black women and girls to survive America while being able to love themselves, others, and collective Black freedom. Ultimately, Lomax declares that Black women and girls are emphatically not defective, second-class, or immanent nurturers; they are sacred and revolutionary beings who deserve to live a life free of predation, patriarchy, misrecognition, misogynoir, and violence.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAuthor’\u003cbr\u003es Note  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Toxic Literacies: Good Black Mothers, Endangered Black Boys, and Invisible Black Girls  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Black Girls Matter: Letter to My Fourteen-Year-Old Self  25\u003cbr\u003e 2.“\u003cbr\u003eF*ck Y’\u003cbr\u003eall Feminism”\u003cbr\u003e: Black Girls, \u003ci\u003eP-Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, Rape Culture, and Erotic Power  37\u003cbr\u003e 3. “\u003cbr\u003eBreak My Soul”\u003cbr\u003e: Precarity and Resurrection in Evangelical Heteropatriarchal Antiblack America  63\u003cbr\u003e 4. Emancipating Proverbs 31: Liberating Rough, Nasty, and Aggressive Black Girls to Women  91\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ordinary or Insurgent? From Toxic Femininity to Revolutionary Mothering  119\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Toward Sanctuary (and \u003ci\u003eLoving Black Boys\u003c\/i\u003e): Black Feminist Mothering, an Alternative Literacy, Philosophy, and Practice  145\u003cbr\u003e Notes  157\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  207\u003cbr\u003e Index  211\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591026372888,"sku":"9781478024774","price":56.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/freeing-black-girls-a-black-feminist-bible-on-racism-and-revolutionary-mothering-hardback-9781478024774","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}