Mother-Writing and the Narrative of Maternal Subjectivity

Juhasz, Suzanne

doi:10.1080/15240650409349236

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“…In this critical theoretical essay, I discuss literature related to white parenting and racialization as well as draw on autoethnographic mother writing [1][2][3], to show how whiteness is passed down intergenerationally particularly in the United States.…”

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Racist Babies? Resisting Whiteness in Parenting

Nishi¹

2021

Parenting - Studies by an Ecocultural and Transactional Perspective

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Whiteness has evolved in the way that mostly white parents teach their children to embrace and normalize it. Whereas within the United States previously, white families employed explicitly racist tactics to maintain whiteness in their children, today white, neoliberal families have adapted their whiteness to be more implicit and socially acceptable. This chapter draws on literature and narrative inquiry to describe how whiteness is passed down, generation by generation. The author looks particularly at white, neoliberal, and color evasive families of today to deconstruct these myths. The author closes by offering strategies and examples for parents who want to raise critically conscious and socially just children and grow these traits within themselves as well.

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“…Autoethnographic mother writing is a methodology that draws on motherscholars' experiences and observations rooted in their roles as both mother and having been mothered [1,2]. Although autoethnographic mother writing is radically specific [3], it is rich with lived experience and sense-making.…”

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Racist Babies? Resisting Whiteness in Parenting

Nishi¹

2021

Parenting - Studies by an Ecocultural and Transactional Perspective

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“…In this sense the mother's narrative of a child's early life is inconsequential to the child, although it may help the mother to anchor her experience in important ways. Suzanne Juhasz (2003), for instance, has argued convincingly for an understanding of maternal narrative as a way of managing the splitting of identity that is inherent in motherhood. In response to the question ''Why does a mother write?''…”

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