@article{hill_fern_kimbro_hughes_2024, title={"If I got it, she got it": Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering}, volume={86}, ISSN={["1741-3737"]}, DOI={10.1111/jomf.12976}, abstractNote={AbstractObjectiveThis study advances contemporary theories of motherhood, mothering, and foodwork within the context of poverty by focusing on the ways that low‐income Black mothers engage interdependent culturally distinct mothering strategies in light of a porous social safety net.BackgroundContemporary standards for good parenting are increasingly resource‐based.As such, the intricate and tactical ways that low‐income Black mothers manage to make food ends meet with little means and few resources are often obscured in favor of hegemonic forms of mothering.MethodThis study draws on 44 in‐depth interviews with low‐income Black mothers and grandmothers to examine their survival strategies, focusing on food provision.ResultsFindings reveal that these mothers prioritize basic needs provision, such as food and feeding, and achieve this often difficult goal by engaging a cultural toolkit that we term symbiotic mothering. Symbiotic mothering is constructed and reinforced through the collective processes of maternal exchange, mutual aid and resource pooling, and the intergenerational and horizontal transmission of cultural knowledges, values, and practices.ConclusionsWhile there is a wealth of scholarship interrogating the ways Black women deviate from dominant mothering expectations, symbiotic mothering highlights the unique cultural skillsets these mothers actively engage to meet the everyday demands of mothering, particularly related to food provision.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY}, author={Hill, Marbella Eboni and Fern, Simon E. and Kimbro, Rachel and Hughes, Cayce C.}, year={2024}, month={Apr}, pages={455–472} }
 @article{hill_marsh_2024, title={The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class}, ISSN={["2332-6506"]}, DOI={10.1177/23326492241228787}, journal={SOCIOLOGY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY}, author={Hill, Marbella Eboni and Marsh, Kris}, year={2024}, month={Feb} }
 @article{fern_kimbro_hill_hughes_2023, title={Emergency Food Support Preference and Usage During COVID-19: A Neighborhood Study of Low-Income Black Mothers' Use of School-Based Food Distribution and P-EBT}, volume={113}, ISSN={["1541-0048"]}, DOI={10.2105/AJPH.2023.307458}, abstractNote={ COVID-19 disrupted families’ food supply. Based on in-depth interviews with 45 Black low-income mothers of young children in an underserved Houston, Texas, neighborhood from April 2020 to June 2021, we compared two aid programs—Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer cash assistance and in-kind food distributions. We found that mothers preferred cash assistance for boosting existing food strategies, while food distributions presented new challenges for already burdened families. We argue that food assistance interventions can be more successful and equitable by integrating service user context, needs, and preferences. (Am J Public Health. 2023;113(S3):S227–S230. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307458 ) }, journal={AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH}, author={Fern, Simon E. and Kimbro, Rachel T. and Hill, Marbella Eboni and Hughes, Cayce C.}, year={2023}, month={Dec}, pages={S227–S230} }