Research Note

Black Feminist Theory for Participatory Theatre with Migrant Mothers

Bibliographic Data

ID3946282
AuthorsUmut Erel (0000-0001-7853-991X), T Reynolds (0000-0002-9618-6318)
Year2014
Volume108
Issue1
Pages106-111
Publication date2014-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/fr.2014.20
OpenAlexW2082617783
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited13

Black feminist scholarship has long identified the family as an ambiguous space: at once constituted through gendered, age-specific and other power relations and also a source of support against racist experiences in wider society (Carby 1982). Mothers, in particular, are charged with caring for children. This often includes transmitting cultural resources that enable children to develop positive cultural identities as an important resource helping to cope with racism (Hill Collins 1990, Reynolds 2005). This care and cultural work is not only limited to biological mother-child relationships, but women might engage in other-mothering, or bring their care and culture work to their community activism (Erel and Tomlinson 2005, Reynolds 2003). We have again returned to black feminist theory with our recent project ‘Migrant Mothers Caring for future Citizens’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to challenge such representations of immigrant mothers as outsiders to the nation who use services without having contributed to them

Feminism · Feminist theory · Participatory action research · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · The arts · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Irish and British Studies · Law · Theatre and Performance Studies

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