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mixedmom
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 Posted: Wed 09 Feb 2005 21:14 Post subject: White Mothers of black/white biracial children |
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http://aff.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/19/1/68
This is an interesting read. This study gives some insight into the perspective of white mothers who are married to black men and raising biracial children. Click on the link above. When the page opens, if the PDF file doesn't open automatically, click on Begin Manual Download.
| Quote: | | This article reports on a qualitative research study of the racial and ethnic identity of 11 White mothers who were married to Black (specifically African American) men and were raising biracial children. The uniqueness of these womens lives, as Whites with an intimate knowledge of the Black experience, makes it difficult to place them within the levels described by current models of racial identity. Through their parenting of biracial children, the mothers had come to a greater sense of their own racial identity and to recognize White privilege and their own White identity. Their specific ethnic identity, as ethnic Whites, has not been passed on to their children. |
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Powell
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| Posted: Thu 10 Feb 2005 00:23 Post subject: White mothers |
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| I notice that all these mothers were in long-term marriages with black men. There would be a tendency to please the husband. What about the single mothers - divorced, abandoned or never married? |
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mixedmom
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| Posted: Thu 10 Feb 2005 01:46 Post subject: White Mothers of black/white biracial children |
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I don't think that pleasing their husbands is the main reason why some white mothers don't pass their white ethnic identity on to their children. Black mothers married to white men usually pass their black ethnic identity onto their black/white biracial offspring. I think that this is really a social attitude that white mothers (and fathers) succomb to. Perhaps race is more important to black and less important to whites.
| Powell wrote: | | I notice that all these mothers were in long-term marriages with black men. There would be a tendency to please the husband. What about the single mothers - divorced, abandoned or never married? |
One thing to ponder is, is there a perceived tendency that these black men don't want to please their wives regarding this issue? I don't have any stats on this but it seems like there are many white mothers in the various non married categories listed above that don't pass their white ethnic identity on to their black/white biracial offspring as well as the married ones. I've often wondered when or if this trend would ever turn around. I've heard some black women referring to the discomforts of pregnancy, and the trying experience of labor and delivery as a way of justifying their entitlement to calling their biracial children black. I've never heard white women do this even though the child bearing process is certainly no different for them. |
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Liana
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| Posted: Mon 14 Feb 2005 18:37 Post subject: |
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That is a good article
I dont know - I know that several of the "mixed race" organizations were started by white mother s married to black men with mixed children, who did NOT wish to call their children black because they felt that THEIR ancestry was lost in the shuffle
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