... male violence (Mainardi, 1970). The role of black women in the context of young black male rioting is something which is often neglected. In the case of Michael Brown, his mother was at the centre of a large amount of media coverage in the Ferguson riots, portrayed in many cases as a voice calling for peace (Gorman, 2014). Butler (1994) has highlighted the ... which black women in particular become a doubly charged political grouping in that they represent both feminist causes and opposition to white ethnocentrism. Thus the emergence of figures such as the mother of Michael Brown and Pa...

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... the female slave. Thus, motherhood gravely circumscribed their lives. This was illustrated by enslaved women's compromised ability to run away, where breastfeeding and general concern for her offspring greatly limited a mother's mobility. However, motherhood did not mean that slave women were deprived of other strategies to resist their masters. As White points out, a woman's gender endowed her with the exclusive opportunity ... ...

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