I/We Narratives Among African American Families Raising Children with Special Needs
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- 14 December 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
- Vol. 35 (1) , 3-25
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.Keywords
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