{"id":294,"date":"2009-08-07T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=294"},"modified":"2013-04-30T00:24:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T00:24:33","slug":"raising-chicanos-in-the-great-white-north-a-white-mothers-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Raising Chicanos in the Great White North: A White Mother’s Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raising Chicanos in the Great White North: A White Mother’s Muse<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Qualitative Inquiry<\/a>
\nVolume 15, Number\u00a07<\/a>, (July 2009)
\npages 1155-1177
\nDOI: 10.1177\/1077800409338033
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Traci Fordham-Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts
\nSt. Lawrence University, Canton, NY<\/em><\/p>\n

This article explores paradoxes in being the White mother of Mexican American children and discusses how some of its attendant issues contrast one another. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0The author writes of liminality and simultaneity, “I\u2019m \u2018swimming in the sea\u2019 as both the swimmer, struggling, and part of the sea, itself, pulling myself under, drowning in between-ness . . .”\u00a0 The headings, “From the Shore,” provide a detached, theoretical reflection upon the author\u2019s experiences as a White mother of mixed-race children: “I\u2019m standing on the banks, looking into my experiences and speaking from my \u2019head\u2019,” and the headings, “In the Sea,” provide stories: “I\u2019m immersed in the depths of my experiences and reflecting from my \u2018heart\u2019.”<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raising Chicanos in the Great White North: A White Mother’s Muse Qualitative Inquiry Volume 15, Number\u00a07, (July 2009) pages 1155-1177 DOI: 10.1177\/1077800409338033 Traci Fordham-Hern\u00e1ndez, Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY This article explores paradoxes in being the White mother of Mexican American children and discusses how some of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,25],"tags":[446,445],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-qualitative-inquiry","tag-traci-fordham-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}