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Spare the kids, why whupping children won't save Black America, Stacey Patton, PhD

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Spare the kids, why whupping children won't save Black America, Stacey Patton, PhD

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Spare the kids

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

951753663

Responsibility statement

Stacey Patton, PhD

Sub title

why whupping children won't save Black America

Summary

"Spare the Kids examines the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to racial violence in America. The impact on child rearing among so many black families of Stacey Patton's Spare the Kids may well prove as powerfully corrective as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was upon the acceptance of chattel slavery. David Levering Lewis, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for biographies on W.E.B. Du Bois"--NoveList

Table Of Contents

A family conversation -- "A love whupping:" reflections on the Adrian Peterson -- And "Baltimore mom" controversies -- Extending the master's lash: the historical roots of Whupping children in black communities -- Would Jesus whup a child? Black clergy on what sparing the rod really means -- "You always were a black queen, mama:" how black boys who are whupped by their mothers grow up to mistreat other black women -- "Talk to the wood or go to the 'hood:" the campaign to end paddling in Southern schools -- "I'll bust you in the head 'til the white meat shows!" Why black comedians joke about whuppings -- "Don't be a fast girl:" how hitting your daughter can trigger early puberty -- The parent-to-prison-pipeline: how Wisconsin's first Black district attorney connected hitting children to criminal justice outcomes -- Sparing the rod: testimonies of black parents who stopped hitting, or never whupped

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