Learning to be An American
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21205933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jodi Kaufmann (0000-0003-2212-1308, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 481-490 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/irqr.2009.1.4.481 |
| OpenAlex | W2267617730 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
As a white, American wife of an Iranian, I spent several months in Iran in 1979 and again in 1987. My experiences on these trips to my husband's home were profound and devastating. These experiences deeply troubled my understanding of what it meant to be a citizen of the United States. In this autoethnographic narrative, I work between experience, people's history, published history, theory, and poetry to trouble my position as an American
Art · Autoethnography · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Political science · Sociology · TRIPS architecture · Wife · Engineering · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |