BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.adoptionnetwork.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.1 0// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:fd7c6385-41f4-4bc5-a789-ec07795cd241 X-WR-CALDESC:Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Lo ve\, Coercion\, and Survival  \n\nMore grandparents are currently raising their grandchildren than at any other time in American history\, with near ly 30 percent of U.S. children living with their grandparents at some poin t. When compared to other racial and ethnic groups\, the number of Black c hildren being raised by their grandparents is far higher than other groups . One in ten Black children will live in skipped-generation households or so-called Grandfamilies– households that consist of only grandparents and grandchildren– at some point. \n\nSociologist LaShawnDa Pittman\, Ph.D.\,  explores this topic – skipped generation households in the Black community – in her timely new book Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Centu ry Story of Love\, Coercion\, and Survival. \n\nDrawing on extensive resea rch and interviews with more than 70 Black grandmothers raising their gran dchildren\, Dr. Pittman’s book increases awareness and understanding of th e myriad legal\, economic\, and relational intricacies Black grandmothers must grapple with when raising their grandchildren in the twenty-first cen tury. By doing so\, it challenges the limited belief among Black (and othe r) communities\, policymakers\, practitioners\, and academia that contempo rary grandparent caregiving is merely the continuation of a historic tradi tion in the Black community. During this talk\, Dr. Pittman will discuss h ow Black grandparents haven’t “always” experienced caregiving in its curre nt iteration.  \n\nAbout LaShawnDa\nDr. LaShawnDa Pittman is Associate Pro fessor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of W ashington. She is the Joff Hanauer Honors Professor in Western Civilizatio n and has an appointment in the Department of Sociology. Dr. Pittman’s boo k Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love\, Coerc ion and Survival explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in skipped-generation households. \n\nDr. Pittman’s sc holarship has been published in many prominent journals and edited volumes \, including Health Equity\, The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the So cial Sciences\, Social Science and Medicine\, City and Community\, Women\, Gender\, and Families of Color\, and Relational Poverty Politics!. Her re search on grandparent caregiving has been featured in numerous media outle ts\, including USA Today\, The Chicago Tribune\, PBS's “To the Contrary\,” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education\, Generations United\, and the Nation al Caucus and Center on Black Aging. Several institutions have funded Dr. Pittman’s work\, including the National Science Foundation\, Ford Foundati on\, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\, Northwestern Universit y\, Hiram College\, and the University of Washington. She is the founder a nd director of the black digital humanities project—Real Black Grandmother s. \n\nDr. Pittman is a certified yoga and mindfulness meditation teacher and teaches mindfulness meditation classes to kinship caregivers (and othe rs). In 2022\, she was inducted into the Mind and Life Institute Fellow Pr ogram where she will “engage and collaborate with a global network of infl uential leaders committed to contemplative scholarship and practice.” X-WR-RELCALID:589b2691718f4d4b321d687c27509b58 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 RDATE:20251102T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a947db08-7c26-4758-811e-9ceef5610ff7 DTSTAMP:20260501T063432Z DESCRIPTION:Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Lov e\, Coercion\, and Survival  \n\nMore grandparents are currently raising t heir grandchildren than at any other time in American history\, with nearl y 30 percent of U.S. children living with their grandparents at some point . When compared to other racial and ethnic groups\, the number of Black ch ildren being raised by their grandparents is far higher than other groups. One in ten Black children will live in skipped-generation households or s o-called Grandfamilies– households that consist of only grandparents and g randchildren– at some point. \n\nSociologist LaShawnDa Pittman\, Ph.D.\, e xplores this topic – skipped generation households in the Black community – in her timely new book Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Centur y Story of Love\, Coercion\, and Survival. \n\nDrawing on extensive resear ch and interviews with more than 70 Black grandmothers raising their grand children\, Dr. Pittman’s book increases awareness and understanding of the myriad legal\, economic\, and relational intricacies Black grandmothers m ust grapple with when raising their grandchildren in the twenty-first cent ury. By doing so\, it challenges the limited belief among Black (and other ) communities\, policymakers\, practitioners\, and academia that contempor ary grandparent caregiving is merely the continuation of a historic tradit ion in the Black community. During this talk\, Dr. Pittman will discuss ho w Black grandparents haven’t “always” experienced caregiving in its curren t iteration.  \n\nAbout LaShawnDa\nDr. LaShawnDa Pittman is Associate Prof essor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Wa shington. She is the Joff Hanauer Honors Professor in Western Civilization and has an appointment in the Department of Sociology. Dr. Pittman’s book  Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love\, Coerci on and Survival explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising t heir grandchildren in skipped-generation households. \n\nDr. Pittman’s sch olarship has been published in many prominent journals and edited volumes\ , including Health Equity\, The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Soc ial Sciences\, Social Science and Medicine\, City and Community\, Women\, Gender\, and Families of Color\, and Relational Poverty Politics!. Her res earch on grandparent caregiving has been featured in numerous media outlet s\, including USA Today\, The Chicago Tribune\, PBS's “To the Contrary\,” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education\, Generations United\, and the Nationa l Caucus and Center on Black Aging. Several institutions have funded Dr. P ittman’s work\, including the National Science Foundation\, Ford Foundatio n\, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\, Northwestern University \, Hiram College\, and the University of Washington. She is the founder an d director of the black digital humanities project—Real Black Grandmothers . \n\nDr. Pittman is a certified yoga and mindfulness meditation teacher a nd teaches mindfulness meditation classes to kinship caregivers (and other s). In 2022\, she was inducted into the Mind and Life Institute Fellow Pro gram where she will “engage and collaborate with a global network of influ ential leaders committed to contemplative scholarship and practice.” DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240520T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240520T210000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:VIRTUAL - Grandmothering While Black with Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR