Stacey Patton
Autor(a) de That Mean Old Yesterday
About the Author
Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist, author, and child advocate. Her writing on issues surrounding higher education, child welfare, and race has appeared in the Washington Post, At Jazeera, the BBC News, and the Root. She is also the author of That Mean Old Yesterday and the creator of mostrar mais the anti-corporal punishment organization Spare the Kids. mostrar menos
Obras de Stacey Patton
Don’t believe her defenders. Amy Schumer’s jokes are racist. 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy (2022) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
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I have worked as a social worker with families who are involved with Child Protective Services, and I have seen first hand the concerns black parents have about the future of their children as black Americans if they don’t teach them respect for authority. However, I was not aware that the roots of the harsh discipline techniques used by some black parents are related to how their ancestors were treated as slaves. I did question, like other reviewers did, the assertion made by Patton that families in Africa did not and do not use corporal punishment and that therefore there was no tradition of harsh discipline until the experience of slavery. She does not adequately support that assertion and during a recent trip to Tanzania, I asked our three guides how children are disciplined and was told that some parents are lenient and some whup their children – as one might expect – but that there was no one cultural norm.
In chapter 8, Patton lays out a convincing argument that hitting kids regularly causes the children’s bodies to release cortisol as a fight or flight response, which can lead to cancer, heart disease, and other stress related ailments. Similarly, she claims whupping brings on early puberty in girls. She talks about the eroticism of black women and children by white men from the time of early explorers. For an example of this in more recent times, she points to the pornographic post cards of the 1920s and 1930s featuring young girls that emphasized large lips, bare bottoms, and curvy bodies. She argues that this inculturation of viewing black women as sexually promiscuous leads parents to hit their girls to “keep them innocent and from harm”. There is a lot to think about in this book and it should be considered carefully.… (mais)