Shellee Colen "Like a Mother to Them": Stratified Reproduction and West Indian Childcare Workers and Employers in New York by Michelle Gaspari https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx Section 2 en-us 2021-03-08 19:40:10 UTC 2025-12-30 20:30:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Prompts gasparimichelle1 https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284145212 1)    What is the piece arguing? How is it intervening? (This should be the bulk of your conversation)
1a) Is it offering any key terms? If so, how are they defined?

2)    How is the piece arguing it? (What evidence is offered)

3)    To whom is the piece arguing? (Who is it’s intended audience)

4)    How can it be put productively put in conversation with other pieces you have read this week or in other weeks of the course?*

*for the shorter pieces, please spend a good amount of your discussion time considering connections! 
]]> 2021-03-08 19:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284145212 Room 2 https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284613693 1) A main theme throughout the piece is exploring the stratification of reproduction, specifically with West Indian childcare workers and families in NY.  It is reinforced by cultural aspects of childcare and parenting, where there is a difference between US expectations/norms and West Indian norms. 
1a) Stratified reproduction is how child-rearing is different based on the inequalities of class, race, gender, etc. 

2) through research with West Indian caretaker interviews in NY and their families 

3) general public, possibly targeted at upper class? 

4) Martin-- how the roles of the egg and female reproduction is characterized as passive, minimized, and here we can see how the caretakers and motherhood, pregnancy is also minimized and not appreciated 
Rubin- discussion on Marxist/capitalism-- there is a connection/similar theme on how women are reduced to reproduction/household chores, subordination of women comes as a result of the excess labor in maintaining labor class 


]]> 2021-03-08 21:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284613693 Room 5 emilyko70 https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284617189 1) Employers don't acknowledge how vital these caregivers are for their families and overlook their capabilities as adult human beings. In West Indian communities, child bearing is something that is treated with respect and is a critical component of West Indian social relations. These women (who work as caregivers) often neglect their own biological children due to lack of respect from their employers (low wages/salaries, lack of benefits). 
1a) Stratified reproduction - the imbalance of people from different races, class, status etc. to nurture and care for children. 
Commodification - treating something as a commodity (an item that can be bought/sold)
Reproductive labor - "physical, mental, and emotional, of bearing, raising, and socializing children and of creating and maintaining households and people is differentially experienced, valued, and rewarded according to inequalities of access to material and social resources in particular historical and cultural contexts." (pg 78)

]]> 2021-03-08 21:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284617189 Group 4 andreagonzales6 https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284620088 1.  The experience of West Indian women that step into the role of taking care of the children of upper class New Yorkers and the difference between social and physical reproductive tasks. 

1a) Terms to know: “stratified reproduction” which are the physical and social reproductive tasks that are performed based on classism, racism, sexism, and citizenship/immigration status. These reproductive tasks include socialization, birth-giving, and any other responsibility associated with bearing and raising children and maintaining the well-being of a household. 

2) The theme of this paper is supported by analysis of the social conditions that have forced Caribbean women to perform this labor. By discussing the immigration laws that prevent women from bringing their family to the United States as well as the cultural value of family and raising children (84), Colen discusses the unique experience of Caribbean women care-givers. These cultural and legal aspects are then combined with the realities of capitalism, including unstable wages, un and underemployment, the high cost of living and limited opportunities for social mobility continues to enforce this stratified reproduction.

3) This piece's intended audience are those within the piece's demographics, employers, workers, and those that are interested in the system of reproduction. 

4. In Rubins piece, she talked about how women by staying home contributed to a capitalists society. Being a "housewife" to take care of the home and the children was seen as a job of taking care of the provider. This connects to Colen's piece because when parents prefer or need to work instead of staying home to care for the kids and house they hire someone else to do this for them. ]]> 2021-03-08 21:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284620088 Group 1 https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284626679 1) West Indian women take on the role of mothering children of wealthy/upper class New Yorkers which represents the stratification of reproductive roles and how race and gender gets in the way of nurturing children. 
1a) social reproductive, stratified reproduction, transnational system, world capitalist system, fostering
2) “I don’t need somebody to take care of my children. I need somebody to help me take care of my children. And that’s an important distinction to me…” (pg.92) 
"Employers' ideas about motherhood and childcare are influenced by changing socioeconomic realities and ideologies" (79)
"Children are considered women's wealth in West Indian culture" (84)
3) The ignorant employers!!
4) this piece shows a specific form of oppression Rubin explains in her paper

]]> 2021-03-08 21:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284626679 Group 3 https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284633335 1. The piece is arguing that the contrasting experience of childbearing using West Indian childcare workers and their white US born employers uncovers the existence of a stratified system of reproduction.

1a. Stratified reproduction is defined as the idea that “physical and social reproductive tasks are accomplished differentially according to inequalities that are based on hierarchies of class, race, ethnicity, gender, place in a global economy, and migration status and that are structured by social, economic, and political forces” (78).


2) West Indian women are raising the next generation of middle and upperclass American children meanwhile, their children are left behind due to various reasons. 

3) The intended audience Collen targets is the general public.

4) This argument can relate to Rubin's argument on capitalism how women are oppressed, in a capitalist society, women are given the "role" to cultivate, while men are not given the same expectations in reproduction or taking care of their children.

]]> 2021-03-08 21:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284633335 Group 6 https://padlet.com/gasparimichelle1/7wit9z7dv3gow9jx/wish/1284640452 1)The piece is arguing that the use of West Indian women as care takers of white children in New York of social reproduction of the event in slavery where women slave had to rare their Masters child.
1a)Terms: Motherhood, Childcare, Stratified reproduction, transitional system. Reproductive labor: the different applications of labor to raising and socializing a child in a household(.78)Stratiified reproduction: reproductive tasks are accomplished differently among the demographics of race, ethnicity, gender and class
2) The author used immigration laws and case studies.
3. The intended audience is students that are interested in how reproduction differs among various demographics, sociologists, ideal target is upper class so they can become more self aware
4. The concept of class inequality can be found in the Rubin article. Here, employers are in social and financial positions where they can exploit and afford to employ a childcare worker for their home.

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