I/We Narratives Among African American Families Raising Children with Special Needs |
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Authors: | Lanita Jacobs Mary Lawlor Cheryl Mattingly |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California, 3601 Watt Way, GFS 120, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1692, USA;(2) Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, 1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 133, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9003, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper examines a statistics debate among African American caregivers raising children with disabilities for insights
into the work of “African American mothering.” Using ethnographic, narrative and discourse analyses, we delineate the work
that African American mothers do—in and beyond this conversation—to cross ideological and epistemological boundaries around
race and disability. Their work entails choosing to be an “I” and, in some cases, actively resisting being seen as a “they”
and/or part of a collective “we” in order to chart alternative futures for themselves and their children. |
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