The criminalization of Black mothering

March 31, 2019 3:11 PM

Raising children under suspicion and criminalization: "Black mothers said they must protect their teen children not only from crime and violence but also from being criminalized by police and other authorities... And at the same time that they worried about their children’s criminalization, mothers had to guard against being criminalized themselves."

Sinikka Elliott, who wrote this piece for The Conversation, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia and recently published Low-Income Black Mothers Parenting Adolescents in the Mass Incarceration Era: The Long Reach of Criminalization in the American Sociological Review with co-author Megan Reid, National Poverty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Research on Poverty.

posted by DarlingBri (2 comments total)

I can't even imagine how exhausting this is to experience on top of the usual struggles of being low income.
posted by praemunire at 11:34 PM on March 31, 2019 [2 favorites]

The Black Entertainment Television show Finding Justice just did an episode “Criminalization of Kids”.

I've tried to create Fanfare pages for the show but there isn't any way to do that easily, evidently, because IMDb doesn't have an entry for the show and Fanfare depends on IMDb.
posted by XMLicious at 7:58 AM on April 4, 2019