{"id":16574,"date":"2011-09-28T00:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T00:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16574"},"modified":"2012-03-25T21:57:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T21:57:29","slug":"the-politics-of-mothering-in-a-%e2%80%9cmixed%e2%80%9d-family-aa-autoethnographic-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16574","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Mothering in a \u201cMixed\u201d Family: An Autoethnographic Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/10702890500332642\" target=\"_blank\">The Politics of Mothering in a \u201cMixed\u201d Family: An Autoethnographic Exploration<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/gide20\" target=\"_blank\">Identities<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/gide20\/12\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 12, Issue 4<\/a>, 2005<br \/>\npages 479-503<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/10702890500332642\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/10702890500332642<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalia.ps\/who-we-are#Nora\" target=\"_blank\">Nora Lester Murad<\/a><\/strong>, Founder and Executive Director<br \/>\n<em>Dalia Association<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interweaving excerpts from her personal journal with research and literature about mixed race, interfaith, and bicultural experience, Nora Lester Murad uses autoethnographic methods to explore the experience of mothering in an American\u2013Jewish and Palestinian\u2013Muslim family. She pushes theoretical discussion beyond the experiences of \u201cmixed\u201d people to consider how the identity of otherwise monoracial\/ monocultural parents may be transformed through the experience of parenting across socially\/politically significant differences, particularly, national origin, culture, and faith. She also extends theoretical discussion beyond the confines of identity to consider parenting as a political process with an impact within and beyond families.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps there is a place I have not yet imagined where exiles and strangers gather, racial hybrids of consciousness which can run as thick as blood, who out of necessity make the effort to rename what it means to belong (Lazarre 1996: 51).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Family politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My eldest daughter. Serene, met her grandparents on her father&#8217;s side for the first time in 1997, when she was one year old. It was her first trip outside of the United States to visit my husband Hani&#8217;s village in the Arab sector of Northern Israel. It was her first time being surrounded by Palestinian Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>I vividly remember watching my little angel standing on the balcony off the sitting room. She was so focused, so grounded, so totally at home as she stared toward the olive-tree-covered mountain behind the house. I remember my own amazement\u2014and fear\u2014as I realized that this is&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/10702890500332642\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Politics of Mothering in a \u201cMixed\u201d Family: An Autoethnographic Exploration Identities Volume 12, Issue 4, 2005 pages 479-503 DOI: 10.1080\/10702890500332642 Nora Lester Murad, Founder and Executive Director Dalia Association Interweaving excerpts from her personal journal with research and literature about mixed race, interfaith, and bicultural experience, Nora Lester Murad uses autoethnographic methods to explore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,414,3601,8,820],"tags":[6729,7670,7669,465],"class_list":["post-16574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-family","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-identities","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\/16574","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=16574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}