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Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging book cover by Jamilah Lemieux
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Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging

by Jamilah Lemieux

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Hardcover · 352 pages Random House Publishing Group · 2026

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Black. Single. Mother.

A personal meditation on, examination of, and tribute to Black single motherhood, unapologetically told through poignant essays and candid interviews by a celebrated cultural critic

“Jamilah Lemieux is one of the most important feminist writers of the twenty-first century.”—Brittney Cooper

With her signature candid, humorous, and sometimes biting takes, Jamilah Lemieux suffers no fools while also courageously revealing the scars of her own parenting journey and search for self-acceptance in a world that hates “baby mamas.” With a particular verve and relatability—honed in her many years among Black Twitter’s most prominent voices—Lemieux centers the complex reality of Black single motherhood: uncertainty and fierceness alike.

Black. Single. Mother. combines riveting personal essays, infused with whip-smart cultural and historical analysis, with twenty-one intimate first-person testimonies from a spectrum of Black single mothers. A long-overdue offering in celebration of the American matriarch most often maligned, Black. Single. Mother. sets out to inspire a new cultural and community dialogue about this powerful figure as one profoundly deserving of love, support, and respect.

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Author
Jamilah Lemieux
Format
Hardcover
Published
Mar 10, 2026
ISBN-13
9780593447543
ISBN-10
0593447549
Pages
352
Carton quantity
12 copies
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