- 20560 Ventura Blvd
Apt 104
Woodland Hills, Ca 91364 - 9043779756
Chyna Davis
University of Southern California, USC School of Social Work, Graduate Student
- Clark Atlanta University, Africana Women's Studies, Graduate StudentUniversity of South Florida, Womens and Gender Studies, Undergraduateadd
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- Chyna Hill is a native of Yulee, Florida. Her scholarship has been influenced by her southern upbringing. She attended the University of South Florida where she earned a BA in Women and Gender Studies (2014). She also received a Master of Arts in Africana Women's Studies from Clark Atlanta University (2016) and a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California (2018). Currently, Chyna is a third year PhD student at the University of Southern California.edit
Through a content analysis of the maternal relationships in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers Gardens, the author evaluates how southern black women writers construct black... more
Through a content analysis of the maternal relationships in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers Gardens, the author evaluates how southern black women writers construct black motherhood. This study is based on the premise that Eurocentric paradigms of motherhood confine black mothers to controlling images that continue to criminalize, distort, and devalue black motherhood. The researcher finds that the institution of black motherhood exists independently of Eurocentric paradigms. The conclusions drawn from these findings suggest that black women writers construct motherhood in terms of Womanist leadership. In the aforementioned memoirs, Womanist leadership is learned and defined in the black church. In summation, this thesis finds that southern black women writers use spiritual reconciliation as a form of Womanist leadership.
