"They Call Me the Other Parent": Othermothering in a Community-Led After-School Program for Black Youth

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: Reimagining Black Parenting in School and Community

Abstract

We examine a community-led after-school program designed by Black women for Black youth from a low-income community through the lens of othermothering. Through interviews and focus groups exploring a multi-year community-university partnership in a large northeastern city, we find that the Black women staff centered community needs to drive programming activities, provided wraparound supports for families, and created a familial environment within the program. We argue that these practices fostered a culturally relevant after-school program that was driven by the knowledge and practices of Black women in the community. Supporting minoritized communities to enact their own culturally relevant after-school programs may lead to the establishment of unique programs that view communities as assets, instead of sites of domination.

Authors

• Jake D. Winfield, Temple University

• Sara Fiorot, Temple University

• Catherine Pressimone Beckowski, Temple University

• Dominque Daniels, Temple University

• James Earl Davis, Temple University