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Mendenhall, Ruby Brown, Ruth N. Mendenhall, Ruby Pak, Yoon McKee, Malaika Gates, Taylor-Imani Andelisa 2018-09-27T16:34:18Z 2018-09-27T16:34:18Z 2020-09-28T09:15:19Z 2018-07-12 2018-08 This dissertation analyzes the lived experiences of 62 Black mothers living and surviving in Englewood, an impoverished neighborhood with high levels of violence on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. The interviews were analyzed using aspects of grounded theory and with the goal to learn more about how the mothers cope with everyday life, or the quotidian, in Englewood. Woven through this project, providing socio-historical context, is Black feminist thought that aims to bring to the center the complicated nature of being raced, sexed, living in poverty and mothering children. The ideological frame of this dissertation is invested in pushing back against mainstream discourses of Black women and mothering to offer a critique of the status quo and shed light on the beauty of the quotidian through mothering and coping strategies. The Black mothers in this project coped with stress through praying and connecting to a higher power which revealed how these mothers survived. Such coping mechanisms are deemed practices of active survival and revolutionary mothering. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-08-01 The student, Taylor-Imani Gates, accepted the attached license on 2018-07-11 at 14:04. The student, Taylor-Imani Gates, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-07-11 at 14:16. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-07-12 at 14:29. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12828 on 2018-09-27 at 11:19:08 Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-27T16:34:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 GATES-DISSERTATION-2018.pdf: 2068267 bytes, checksum: 6ca65d9d9c6650dabb46c1ec57cb2307 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4215 bytes, checksum: 424c01dff4e57e882c8c94e5cb3af0e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-12 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 107806 Lift date: 2020-09-27T16:34:29Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 107806 on 2020-09-28T09:15:19Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/101706 en Copyright 2018 Taylor-Imani Andelisa Gates Black Mothers, Coping, Resiliency, Resistance, Violence, Revolutionary Mothering Englewood survival: Black mothers’ coping and resiliency text text Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrsh Educational Policy Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.