{"id":1295,"date":"2009-10-03T16:36:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T16:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2013-05-14T04:18:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T04:18:31","slug":"the-politics-of-parenting-in-mixed-families-an-autobiographical-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Parenting in &#8216;Mixed&#8217; Families: An Autobiographical Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p107605_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Politics of Parenting in &#8216;Mixed&#8217; Families: An Autobiographical Account<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association<br \/>\nAtlanta Hilton Hotel<br \/>\nAtlanta, Georgia<br \/>\n2003-08-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalia.ps\/who-we-are#Nora\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nora Lester Murad<\/strong><\/a>, Founder and Executive Director<br \/>\n<em>Dalia Association<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper explores common themes in the varied experiences of parents in families that are &#8220;mixed&#8221; in terms of culture, race, or religion. These themes include identity, location and language, feelings of parental inadequacy, and social support\/social sabotage. <strong>Drawing heavily on my journals and experience mothering two daughters in an international, bicultural, interfaith family, I highlight the political decisions we make as parents and their implications. I intend to counter the marginalization of mixed families by giving us voice and to use my personal experience as a lens on the changing racial and cultural landscape as it is influenced by conflict and love.<\/strong>\u00a0 Throughout, I address the complex political and spiritual transformation that is possible through the experience of parenting in a mixed family.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p107605_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Politics of Parenting in &#8216;Mixed&#8217; Families: An Autobiographical Account Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 Nora Lester Murad, Founder and Executive Director Dalia Association This paper explores common themes in the varied experiences of parents in families that are &#8220;mixed&#8221; in terms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,414,8,14],"tags":[7670,7669,465],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-family","category-media-archive","category-papers","tag-nora-l-murad","tag-nora-lester-murad","tag-nora-murad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}