Left of Black | Dr. Jennifer Nash on Motherhood and Black Feminism

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Black mothers and birthing people are shown to be grossly neglected and misunderstood by the medical industrial complex that is our current healthcare system. And beyond bringing life into the world, Black motherhood is fraught with societal strife, from the Moynihan Report released in March, 1965 to seemingly never-ending incidents of Black youth being killed by police brutality. Is there another way to frame Black motherhood other than a site of trauma and crisis? For example, what political power have Black mothers and birthing people been able to garner in the past few years within our volatile political arenas? Dr. Jennifer C. Nash, longtime celebrated scholar and the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University, joins host Mark Anthony Neal to discuss these very issues through her recent book, "Birthing Black Mothers," published by ‪@DukePress‬ in 2021. Dr. Nash also serves as the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke.
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Left of Black is the Webby Award-nominated series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars, created and hosted by the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Dr. Mark Anthony Neal. From 2010-2020, it was produced by the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Global Studies. In 2020, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute took over production, with funding support from Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.
Directed & edited by Eric Barstow, M.F.A.
Camera & assistant editor, Jakiah Glass
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