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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
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In America, Mother = White That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted to adopt a "crack baby" or said that she would never be able to raise a black son on her own. She realized that American society saw motherhood through a white lens, and that there would be no easy understanding or acceptance of the kind of family she hoped to build. Motherhood So White is the story of Nefertiti's fight to create the family she always knew she was meant to have and the story of motherhood that all American families need now. In this unflinching account of her parenting journey, Nefertiti examines the history of adoption in the African American community, faces off against stereotypes of single, black motherhood, and confronts the reality of raising children of color in racially charged, modern-day America. Honest, vulnerable, and uplifting, Motherhood So White reveals what Nefertiti knew all along-that the only requirement for a successful family is one raised with love.
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09/24/2019
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Nefertiti Austin. (2019). Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America. Unabridged HighBridge.

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Nefertiti Austin. 2019. Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America. HighBridge.

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Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America. HighBridge, 2019.

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Nefertiti Austin. Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America. Unabridged HighBridge, 2019.

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        In this timely, insightful memoir, novelist Austin (Eternity) examines adoption and child-rearing as a single black woman confronting gender and racial bias. At age nine, Austin was taken in by her maternal grandparents, who provided a life that “mirrored white middle class America: a secure household, church, piano lessons” yet lacked legal recognition; it was an informal black adoption, “the practice of raising nieces, nephews, cousins, and grandchildren” that “followed an established cultural tradition.” At 36, eager to become a mother, she trained as a foster parent and learned that “Black boys were least likely to be adopted.” The notion “awakened my Black Power roots. Adopting a baby boy would allow me to lift as I climbed.” Matched with a six-month-old in 2007, she renamed him August and legally adopted him in 2009. Throughout, Austin pegs her son’s daily life to such events as Obama’s election (Obama “was the manifestation of my hopes and dreams for my son”) and the murder of Trayvon Martin (black boys “will be perceived as hypermasculine” and therefore a threat). Juxtaposing tender mother-child moments with the dangers facing African-American boys, Austin captures both the love and fear of her parenting experience in this powerful, spirited narrative.

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