In this article, I explore the impact of slavery and the Slave trade on the most fundamental relationship in human societies, the bond between mother and child. Firstly, I review European accounts of motherhood and childrearing (pre-enslavement) in the African cultures of origin. Secondly, I address the traumas of dislocation and enslavement during the Middle Passage. This is followed by some insights into the experiences of women and children in Caribbean Slave societies where I argue that, despite the harsh conditions, African-derived conceptualisations of motherhood and parenting endured. I conclude with a brief consideration of the reverberations of slavery into the post slavery era, specifically in relation to European attempts to change African-derived practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];.
Kuwabong suggests that both Lorna Goodison's and Claire Harris's poetic of matrilineage survives on their positive representation of the mother-daughter relationship, which ideologically borders on the Caribbean concept of a daughter becoming her mother
"Estudou-se a mortalidade materna segundo a raca das mulheres que residem no Estado do Parana e que morreram entre os anos de 1993 e 1998. O objetivo foi analisar as causas de mortes segundo raca e variaveis socio-economicas, buscando evidenciar a situacao da mulher negra. A populacao foi composta por 956 casos de obitos maternos que fazem parte do Banco de Dados do Comite Estadual de Morte Materna responsavel pela coleta das informacoes." (Author)
Discusses the social conditions and family relations of African-Caribbean women migrants in Canada from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Explores the complexities of relationship between, migrant labor, motherhood, and transnationalism.
