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Trans-racial Mothering : Double-Edged Privilege

Trans-racial Mothering : Double-Edged Privilege AbstractIn this essay, the white adoptive mother of two bi-racial children reflects upon her thirty year experience of parenting to make several philosophical claims. She argues that through the unique mother-child bond, trans-racial mothering may produce knowledge of others' experience that crosses the racial divide. She claims that in this way trans-racial mothering produces epistemic and ethical privileges that may give the mother an advantaged position in public dialogue. Yet, paradoxically, in light of this epistemological transformation, highlighting the works of Black legal scholars and theoreticians, she argues against the general practice of trans-racial adoption of which she is the beneficiary. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Social Distress and Homeless Taylor & Francis

Trans-racial Mothering : Double-Edged Privilege

Journal of Social Distress and Homeless , Volume 17 (1-2): 29 – Feb 1, 2008
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2008 Maney
ISSN
1573-658X
eISSN
1053-0789
DOI
10.1179/sdh.2008.17.1-2.8
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Abstract

AbstractIn this essay, the white adoptive mother of two bi-racial children reflects upon her thirty year experience of parenting to make several philosophical claims. She argues that through the unique mother-child bond, trans-racial mothering may produce knowledge of others' experience that crosses the racial divide. She claims that in this way trans-racial mothering produces epistemic and ethical privileges that may give the mother an advantaged position in public dialogue. Yet, paradoxically, in light of this epistemological transformation, highlighting the works of Black legal scholars and theoreticians, she argues against the general practice of trans-racial adoption of which she is the beneficiary.

Journal

Journal of Social Distress and HomelessTaylor & Francis

Published: Feb 1, 2008

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