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dc.contributor.authorO’Malley, Patti
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-11T13:18:29Z
dc.date.available2022-04-19T00:00:00Z
dc.date.available2022-07-11T13:18:29Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-19
dc.identifier.citationO'Malley P (2022) 'Mothering 'outsider' children: white women in Black/white interracial families in Ireland', Genealogy, 6 (2) 27en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/genealogy6020027
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/625438
dc.description.abstractThe mixed-race family constellation has emerged as a regular feature of the Irish familial landscape. Such a demographic change invariably leads to the increased presence of white women who are mothering across racialised boundaries. Moreover, in the Irish context, the racial category of whiteness is privileged at a structural level and remains a central organising principle of Irishness as a mode of national belonging. This paper, therefore, sets out to address the specific gap in the literature related to the racialised experiences of the white mother of mixed-race (i.e., black African/white Irish) children in contemporary Ireland as these women are, in effect, mothering ‘outsider’ children in a context of white supremacy. More specifically, how does the positioning of these women’s mixed-race children impact their subjectivities as mothers categorised normatively as white and Irish? Framed by critical whiteness literature, this paper draws on in-depth interviews with twelve white Irish mothers. Data analysis broadly revealed three themes as relates to the women’s negotiations of the racialising discourses and practices which impact their family units. Findings suggest that these women no longer occupy the default position of whiteness as a category of racial privilege and a condition of ‘structured invisibility’. Perhaps, most significantly, the lived reality of these women disturbs the hegemonic conflation of the categories white and Irish. This paper, therefore, extends our theoretical understanding of both whiteness and mixed-race studies. View Full-Texten_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/6/2/27en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectinterracial familiesen_US
dc.subjectMixed race Irishen_US
dc.subjectIrelanden_US
dc.subjectmotheringen_US
dc.subjectSubject Categories::L300 Sociologyen_US
dc.titleMothering 'outsider' children: white women in Black/white interracial families in Irelanden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn2313-5778
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Bedfordshireen_US
dc.identifier.journalGenealogyen_US
dc.date.updated2022-07-11T13:13:52Z
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