Birthing Black MothersIn Birthing Black Mothers Black feminist theorist Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the Black mother has become a powerful political category. Mothering while Black has become synonymous with crisis as well as a site of cultural interest, empathy, fascination, and support. Cast as suffering and traumatized by their proximity to Black deathespecially through medical racism and state sanctioned police violenceBlack mothers are often rendered