Raising Chicanos in the Great White North
A White Mother’s Muse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Traci Fordham-Hernández (St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1155-1177 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800409338033 |
| OpenAlex | W2074698588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article1 explores paradoxes in being the White mother of Mexican American children and discusses how some of its attendant issues contrast one another. The author, an American scholar, believes she is taught to think and to write, not from the heart, but from a detached and "objective," cerebral cortex, and she sees the places, the prism through which the world is seen, are constantly shifting. The author writes of liminality and simultaneity, "I'm 'swimming in the sea' as both the swimmer, struggling, and part of the sea, itself, pulling myself under, drowning in between-ness . . ." The headings, "From the Shore," provide a detached, theoretical reflection upon the author's experiences as a White mother of mixed-race children: "I'm standing on the banks, looking into my experiences and speaking from my 'head'," and the headings, "In the Sea," provide stories: "I'm immersed in the depths of my experiences and reflecting from my 'heart
Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Ethnography · Liminality · Psychoanalysis · Race (biology · Raising (metalworking · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |