Becoming, belonging, and the fear of everything Black
Autoethnography of a minority-mother-scholar-advocate and the movement toward justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12584516 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg (0000-0003-3760-4476, University of Miami, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 607-622 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Race Ethnicity and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1361-3324 • E-ISSN: 1470-109X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13613324.2021.1918401 |
| OpenAlex | W3161258229 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 24 |
The compartmentalization of (dis)ability from race and ethnicity, and other identity markers serves to maintain these constructs at a safe distance from one another. Beyond these broader socially constructed categories, there are also the subtler messages about normativity that manifest in gradients of ability, color, behavior, capital, expression and power. Even more restrictive is the creation of a narrow space for parent advocacy that is culturally-subtractive and bureaucratic, serving to privilege the already privileged while silencing the marginalized. In this paper, I use autoethnography with DisCrit as a framework in order to to trace my journey to becoming Minority-Mother-Advocate, un/belonging within community and academic forums. The centerpiece of my counternarrative is the transition of my own advocacy from valuing my son to addressing others’ fears of him as a Black male whose visible (dis)ability doesn’t fit neatly into prescribed norms. A reframing of parent advocacy is imperative, moving beyond the individualistic, unintentionally exclusive aims toward one of collective justice
Aesthetics · Autoethnography · Cognitive reframing · Criminology · Economic Justice · Gatekeeping · Identity (music · Political science · Privilege (computing · Racism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Introduction to the Special Issue-Imagining Possible Futures
Educational inequality and the paradox of dis/Ability rights in a schooled society
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What's a Black feminist doing in a field like special education
Evocative Autoethnography
Distinguishing Disability
Disability Critical Race Theory
Girlhood Interrupted
Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education
Stigma
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
Constructing the (m)other
Conceptualizing color-evasiveness
The ‘angry Black woman’ as intellectual bondage
I AM an Angry Black Woman
Bridging Uncharted Waters in Georgia
Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Educational Equity and Difference
Mapping the Margins
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |