{"id":29390,"date":"2013-03-08T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29390"},"modified":"2013-03-08T02:39:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:39:01","slug":"the-experience-of-race-in-the-lives-of-jewish-birth-mothers-of-children-from-blackwhite-interracial-and-inter-religious-relationships-a-canadian-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29390","title":{"rendered":"The experience of race in the lives of Jewish birth mothers of children from black\/white interracial and inter-religious relationships: a Canadian perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2013.752099\" target=\"_blank\">The experience of race in the lives of Jewish birth mothers of children from black\/white interracial and inter-religious relationships: a Canadian perspective<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/rers20\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: 2013-01-14<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2013.752099\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2013.752099<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/channaverbiantherapist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Channa C. Verbian<\/a><\/strong>, BSW, M.Ed., RSW, OASW, OCSWSSW<br \/>\n<em>Toronto, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In this paper, I discuss my life history study on experiences of race in the lives of Jewish-Canadian and Jewish-American birth mothers of children from black\/white interracial, inter-religious relationships. Opening with a reflection on my personal experience and what compelled me to undertake this research, I then provide a short introduction to attitudes about interracial\/inter-religious relationships found in the literature, followed by an introduction to my research methodology. Finally, I compare and contrast the experiences of three Jewish-American mothers, excerpted from their published narratives, and the experiences of two Jewish-Canadian mothers from two recorded interviews, with my own experience. I conclude this paper with a brief summary of the emerging themes in my research and how they add to our understanding of mothering across racialized boundaries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a Jewish-Canadian mother of children from a black\/white interracial, inter-religious relationship. I wanted to be proactive about my children&#8217;s social and psychological development. Consulting the literature on interracial children and racial-identity formation. I became increasingly curious about the experiences of white mothers and how everyday racism and racial discourses might affect their&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/01419870.2013.752099\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experience of race in the lives of Jewish birth mothers of children from black\/white interracial and inter-religious relationships: a Canadian perspective Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2013-01-14 DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2013.752099 Channa C. Verbian, BSW, M.Ed., RSW, OASW, OCSWSSW Toronto, Canada In this paper, I discuss my life history study on experiences of race in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,125,3601,8,820,394,20,25],"tags":[13930,13931,461],"class_list":["post-29390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-women","tag-channa-c-verbian","tag-channa-verbian","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29390","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=29390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}