ERIC Number: EJ1403683
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-2637-9112
EISSN: EISSN-2637-9120
The Uses of "Partus Sequitur Ventrem": Black Mothers in Higher Education
Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, v16 n4 p261-274 2023
This conceptual article identifies the ways that the seventeenth-century slave code, "partus sequitur ventrem" (PSV), "the child follows the mother" is a functioning allochronism that undergirds the treatment of Black mothers in contemporary institutions of higher education. Through conceptualizing three functions of PSV, pathology, appropriation, and erasure, the author animates the ways that the academy continues to recreate U.S. il/logics committed to the exploitation of Black maternity.
Descriptors: Mothers, College Environment, Racism, Gender Bias, United States History, African American History, Slavery, Feminism, African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Doctoral Students, College Faculty, African American Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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