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This 5 page paper discusses Lynette Clemetson’s article “Work vs. Family, Complicated by Race” and uses it as a springboard to discuss the “mommy wars.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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has been dubbed the "mommy wars." This paper discusses the mommy wars using Lynette Clemetsons article "Work vs. Family, Complicated by Race." Discussion Clemetsons article discusses the mommy wars and
notes that most of the discussion about it has been from the point of view of white women, often middle and upper class whites; their experience is very far removed
from that of black women in the same situation. She reports on a meeting of well-educated women, all of them black, who met to discuss the issue as represented in
book and articles that are proliferating in the media; she says that the discussions on the subject "inevitably fell short. They dont speak to my reality, said Robin Rucker Gaillard,
41, a lawyer and mother of two. We dont generally have the time or luxury for the guilt and competition that some white mothers engage in" (Clemetson, 2006). Black mothers
do in fact have the same concerns as whites, but recent scholarship suggests that "the discussions as portrayed in books and the news media often lack the nuances and complexities
particular to their experience" (Clemetson, 2006). For instance, professional black women are much more likely to be concerned with building sustainable wealth and keeping their families secure than they are
the idea of "self-fulfillment," a psychological construct that seems very far removed from their reality, yet is often cited as being important to white women (Clemetson, 2006). Discussions about rising
to the highest levels of ones own ability, an idea taken from Maslows hierarchy of needs, also "pale in comparison to worries about shielding sons and daughters from the perils
that black children face growing up, and overlook the practical pull of extended families in need of financial support" (Clemetson, 2006). In short, it seems that while both black and
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