In the midst of popular messages that speak about the unconditional nature of love, to what extent might it also be true that “What love looks like, depends on what you look like?” After having spent several hours in labor, a black mother and father (first time parents) were overjoyed to welcome their new son…
A 2016 Pew report reported that 24 percent of Hispanics identify as Afro-Latinxs, but researchers know very little about the significance of Afro-Latinx identity and how it develops. Using survey data administered to 94 self-identified Afro-Latinxs and in-depth interviews with selected survey respondents, the authors examine the socialization experiences that shape their identity formation. The…
Despite advancements, there remains relatively little research about how researchers navigate their bodies and emotions in the context of field research. Perhaps because it represents a threat to ideas about objective or value-free research, qualitative researchers may receive the least amount of practical training about how their bodies and emotions matter in the field. The…
Musings on Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child By Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman When I read early publicity that Toni Morrison’s newest book, God Help the Child, was a novel written about a dark-skinned black woman who is brutalized by her mother because of her color, it struck a chord. It resonated with me because my first book, The Color…
In the late 1980s General Motors tried to breathe new life into Oldsmobile by marketing the car as “not your father’s Oldsmobile.” Years later Dove has taken the opposite approach,and embraced that they are and always will be linked to the beauty products your mother, your grandmother or any other important woman in your life uses. A new survey…
