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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Shaped by her upbringing, Candice Brathwaite felt profoundly unsure about becoming a mother.
Chapter 3: Media portrayals of Black fatherhood are damaging, misleading, and reinforce stereotypes.
Chapter 4: Candice and Bode were broke, yet they sought to give their baby a different future.
Chapter 5: A Black child’s name can shape how they move through the world, as well as the opportunities they receive.
Chapter 6: Candice almost died after delivering her daughter because, as a Black woman, her warnings were dismissed and not taken seriously.
Chapter 7: Like many other mothers, Candice experienced postnatal depression following the birth of her daughter.
Chapter 8: Candice couldn’t safely raise her children in London, yet relocation brought new challenges.
Chapter 9: Because representation was lacking, Candice became galvanized to share more diverse stories about motherhood.
Description
I Am Not Your Baby Mother (2020) is part memoir and part manifesto about life as a Black British mother. Drawing on Candice Brathwaite’s own journey to parenthood, it describes how she survived everything from postnatal depression to the realization that she could never protect her children from racism. These events motivated her to create space for representations of diverse experiences of motherhood online.
Who Should Listen
- Black mothers looking for narratives of parenthood that more closely reflect their own
- Activists wanting to learn more about inequality in Britain
- White parents who want to confront their own privilege and learn about institutionalized racism