The Uses of 'Partus Sequitur Ventrem': Black Mothers in Higher Education

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Title: The Uses of 'Partus Sequitur Ventrem': Black Mothers in Higher Education
Language: English
Authors: Leah N. Fulton (ORCID 0000-0002-4959-2567)
Source: Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education. 2023 16(4):261-274.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 14
Publication Date: 2023
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
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
DOI: 10.1080/26379112.2023.2267716
ISSN: 2637-9112
2637-9120
Abstract: 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.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2023
Accession Number: EJ1403683
Database: ERIC
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Abstract: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.
ISSN:2637-9112
2637-9120
DOI:10.1080/26379112.2023.2267716