scholarly journals “What you do to Children Matters”: Motherhood in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela López Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Low Income ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Authoritarian Parenting ◽  
Authoritarian Parenting Style

Toni Morrison’s latest novel, God Help the Child, explores the damaging effects of racism on motherhood and the dramatic impact of toxic mothering upon children. The institution of patriarchal motherhood fails to enact the critical tasks of motherwork —preservation, nurturance and cultural bearing, while mothering is a potential site of empowerment of black children and African American culture. African American authoritarian parenting style, associated with patriarchal motherhood, has a correlation with diverse factors, such as the legacy of slavery and its survival strategies, low-income and/or single-parent households and the disruption of the motherline. Motherhood distorted by racism cannot develop a sense of black selfhood in children, thwarting their chances of survival, resistance and subversion of racist ideologies.Keywords: African American, authoritarian parenting, passing for white, single, motherhood.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History.

1998 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 1471
Author(s):  
V. P. Franklin ◽  
Jack Salzman ◽  
David Lionel Smith ◽  
Cornel West
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
African American Culture

History and Memory in African-American Culture.

1995 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 1174
Author(s):  
Craig Werner ◽  
Genevieve Fabre ◽  
Robert O'Meally
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
History And Memory

scholarly journals Parenting Style as Correlates of Adolescents’ Academic Achievement Motivation of Bate Secondary School, Haramaya, Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amare Misganaw Mihret ◽  
Galata Sitota Dilgasa ◽  
Tsigereda Hailu Mamo
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Authoritarian Parenting ◽  
Academic Achievement Motivation ◽  
Authoritarian Parenting Style

This study aimed at examining the relationship of adolescents’ academic achievement motivation and parenting styles. Data were collected from randomly selected 192 adolescent students (93 males and 99 females) through standardized scales of achievement motivation self-report inventory and parenting style scale. The data analysis has been done through both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. To this end, finding revealed that authoritarian parenting style is the most commonly practiced parenting style in the families of respondents among other three parenting styles (authoritative, indulgent and neglectful). There is a statistically significant relationship between authoritative parenting style and students’ academic achievement motivation. Significant relationship between authoritarian parenting style and students’ academic achievement motivation has also been reported. There is strong and negative relationship between neglectful parenting style and students’ academic achievement motivation. That it means, neglectful parenting negatively affects students’ academic motivation. As expected, significant relationship between indulgent parenting style and students’ academic motivation was not reported. In the end, some points were forwarded to suggest ways of properly addressing the gaps noted in this research.

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