African American women (AAW) experience higher burdens of disease and have the highest
rate of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes when compared to females of other ethnic …

The “multiple jeopardies” that often act as barriers for Black women in both leadership and
society may be the same barriers that provide the uniquely diversified leadership …

In 2006, Andrea O'Reilly coined the term motherhood studies to acknowledge and
demarcate this new scholarship on motherhood as a legitimate and autonomous discipline …

The 2020 quote defining the pandemic era was “The New Normal,” which, for Black women,
implies a need for structural and personal transformation. In this essay, we incorporate the …

This is the first full-length explicitly identified autoethnographic text on African American
motherhood. It shows the lived experiences of Black motherhood, when mothering is shaped …

Situating a poetry performance as a form of autoperformance, I analyze the first National
Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, Amanda Gorman's 2021 Presidential inaugural …

This is a postcolonial autoethnography that explores the historical and contemporary plight
of African American women. Specifically, it uses narrative and performative writing to …

This research focused on institutional framings of diversity in mission statements and
communicative practices of chief diversity officers (CDOs) in US institutions of higher …

This chapter presents an overview of several overarching themes relevant to Black mothers.
Multiple social indexes of physical and mental health and well-being, shaped within a lived …

The significance of spirituality to the well-being and success of women of Color academics is
discussed in this article. Participating women of Color revealed the complexities of …