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Journal Article
Where's This Child's Mother? Black Birthing as 'Raw Materials' in Media
2025
Overview
Drawing on Black/feminist concepts from scholars such as bell hooks, Hortense Spillers, and Cheryl L. Harris, this article critically examines the role of media institutions in perpetuating and reinforcing dominant power structures. Across genre, media serves as a tool for maintaining hegemonic whiteness. Through an analysis of three media texts— Orphan Black, The Baby-Sitters Club , and Marry Me —I analyze the disturbing media trend of the deliberate erasure of Black mothering across genre. In each of these works, mixed-race children are used as a proxy for diversity without actually providing the corresponding cultural context. In this way, these texts highlight the failure of what Kristin Warner calls \"plastic representation.\" Ultimately, the article underscores the need for greater diversity and equity in all levels of media creation.
