Standing at the Water’s Edge: Manymothers in African American Culture

This paper aims to initiate a discourse that connects allomothers, endemic African culture, with collective manymothering attachments from psychoanalytic perspective. illuminates the process by which, beginning West Africa, Black mothers adapted and carried of mothering them provide consistent nurturing, responsiveness, attunement their infants’ children’s needs. extending caregiving responsibilities community at large, which I have labeled manymothering, has created generations resistance resilience supported people present. The lens othermothers serves as an adaptive familial structure been sustained through intergenerational resilient transmission. linkage between culture spirituality means ameliorating trauma promoting was examined.