Cover of Sonorous Passages, with a photo of ceramic sculpture titled "Ascend" by artist Maya Beverly. The sculpture depicts the heads of Black maternal figures nested on top of each other.

Sonorous Passages

Black Maternal Soundings and the Liberation Imaginary

Meina Yates-Richard

Duke University Press

2026

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