Black Mothering Takes Shelter: Housing and the Gendered Afterlife of Slavery in the Carceral-Colonial Present
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: : This essay situates homelessness within genealogies of gendered racial and colonial dispossession. Through readings of the narrative and activist practices of Moms 4 Housing, a group of unhoused and marginally housed Black mothers in Oakland, CA, I consider how the deprivation of shelter relies on Black exclusion from normative categories of gender and mothering initiated by the Atlantic slave trade. By wresting shelter from a system of property rooted in multiple forms of carceral and colonial theft, I suggest that Moms 4 Housing’s protest of real estate speculation ruptured the afterlife of slavery and coherence of the settler state.
Source: Theory & Event
Author: Savannah J. Kilner
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4414947370