What the Village Gave Me

Denise Davis-Maye, PhD, is a licensed clinical social worker. An alumna of Clark Atlanta University with over twenty-three years of social work practice experience, Davis-Maye is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Auburn University at Montgomery. Her research interests include the cultural, community, and familial impact on the emotional development of adolescent girls of African descent and the well-being, contributions, and roles of women of color.Annice Dale Yarber, PhD, is an associate professor of sociology at Auburn University at Montgomery. After serving twenty years as a social worker in the areas of substance abuse counseling and administration, she earned a PhD in medical sociology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Alabama. Her research interests include family, gender, and health. Dale Yarber co-edited Focus on Single Parent Families: Past, Present, and Future.Tonya E. Perry, PhD, is a professor of social work at Alabama A & M University. She has more than twenty years of graduate teaching experience and is a former Johns Hopkins International AIDS Research Fellow and Fulbright-Hays Scholar. Perry’s research interests include socio-cultural issues related to the impact of HIV/AIDS, the health conditions of women of African ancestry, and the impact of development upon the status of women.

• PrefaceForewordAcknowledgmentsSection 1: Navigating Troubled Waters: Doing Womanhood in Work Life1. Learning to Swim with the Barracudas: Negotiating Differences in the WorkplaceNia I. Cantey2. Mammies, Maids &Mothers: Representations of African-American and Latina Women’s Reproductive Labor in WeedsJohnanna Ganz3. Being Black Academic Mothers Angela K. Lewis, Sherri L. Wallace, and Clarissa L. PetersonSection 2: Too Grown for Your Own Good: Doing Girlhood4. Combing My Kinks: A Culturally Informed Program to Strengthen Mother-Daughter Relationships Marva L. Lewis and Allisyn L. Swift 5. The ABCs of Doing Gender: Culturally Situated Non-Cognitive Factors & African American GirlsLaShawnda Lindsay-Dennis and Lawanda Cummings6. Learning Black Womanhood: An Autoethnography Denise Davis-MayeSection 3: Turpentine, Sugar, and Pot Liquor: Black Women and Everyday Health7. Growing Up Black and Female: Life Course Transitions and Depressive SymptomsClaire Norris and Paige Miller8. Saving My Soul and Making Me Fat?: Black Mothers and the ChurchAnnice Dale YarberSection 4: Speaking Change and Writing Wrongs: Representations of Activism9. The Art of Activist Mothering: Black Feminist Leadership & Knowing What to DoDenise McLane-Davison10. What Mami Taught Me about EmpireElizabeth Huergo