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- Title
A dance of ambiguous constructions: White South African transracial adoptive and foster mothers' discourses on race.
- Authors
dos Santos, Andeline; Wagner, Claire
- Abstract
'Transracial' adoption and fostering offer fertile ground for exploring how constructions of race can operate. This qualitative study engaged in a discourse analysis of interviews with 17 South African mothers identifying as White who have adopted and who foster transracially. Focus was placed on how they talk about race through their discussions of mothering. Findings highlight how race is constructed largely in an ambivalent manner and how aversive racism can coexist with intentionally devoted mothering. Some mothers in this study, however, do assume a consciously reflexive stance in their deconstruction of race.
- Subjects
INTERRACIAL adoption; DECONSTRUCTION; RACE relations; DISCOURSE analysis; FOSTER mothers
- Publication
South African Journal of Psychology, 2018, Vol 48, Issue 4, p514
- ISSN
0081-2463
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0081246317728433