Lessons of Resistance from Black Mothers to their Black Sons

Sohini Das; Jessica Pitts; Kristina Arevalo; Blair Cox; Tessa Blood; Diane Hughes; Vallone Coulanges; Caitlin Keryc; Onnie Rogers; Niobe Way

doi:10.1111/jora.12740

Lessons of Resistance from Black Mothers to their Black Sons

Sohini Das, Jessica Pitts, Kristina Arevalo, Blair Cox, Tessa Blood, Diane Hughes, Vallone Coulanges, Caitlin Keryc, Onnie Rogers, Niobe Way

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In negotiating the anti-Black oppression, Black mothers communicate lessons of resistance in their racial socialization messages to their Black adolescent boys. We investigate whether distinct strategies of resistance for survival, characterized by individual-focused immediate strategies of resistance, and resistance for liberation, strategies of resistance that disrupt systems of anti-Black oppression rooted in furthering collective Black empowerment, are employed in Black mothers' messages to their sons. In this manuscript, we use longitudinal data of Black mothers’ of adolescent boys interviews (N = 31) across three time points (6th–11th grade). Our findings indicate the presence of various strategies of resistance for survival and resistance for liberation within Black mothers’ preparation for bias socialization.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	981-998
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Research on Adolescence
Volume	32
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12740
State	Published - Sep 2022

Keywords

Black mothers
racial socialization
resistance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cultural Studies
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Behavioral Neuroscience

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