Efforts to close the racial breastfeeding gap are more complicated than they appear
Photo-Illustration: by the Cut; Photo Getty Images/LWA/Dann Tardif On Wednesday, social-justice advocates across the country began to gather — on social media and in person — for the start of the ninth annual Black Breastfeeding Week. This year’s theme, “The Big Pause: Collective Rest for Collective Power,” reminds its participants that radical social change is a long game, that imagining a new world requires rest, self-care, and deliberate focus.
What is surprising is one of the solutions the Department of Health offered to combat obesity: promoting breastfeeding among Black women. Ameliorating the racial breastfeeding gap, the report found, would increase breastfeeding rates and decrease obesity. Breastfeeding would help postpartum Black women lose weight and instruct Black infants on how to develop healthier relationships to satiety.
We now find ourselves in a moment where efforts by the state, nonprofits, and Black feminist activists — often working in uncomfortable concert — work to recruit Black breasts to lactate. The difference between 2005 and now is that Black mothers are figured as lacking information and support, rather than being irrationally noncompliant. They are imagined as unsupported breastfeeders rather than unwilling breastfeeders.
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