Othermotherwork:<i>testimonio</i>and the refusal of historical trauma

Vega, Christine

doi:10.1080/09518398.2017.1401149

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“…Ultimately, this story also explains how I started an unexpected but rewarding journey toward becoming a mother‐scholar‐activist . Others have used this term to highlight advocacy, by mothers who are also scholars, for more supportive family oriented working conditions and norms within universities (Vega, 2018). With the present work, however, mother‐scholar‐activist is a lens for reflecting on advocacy outside of the university setting in my role as a mother and scholar.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fighting Racism Denial; Becoming a Mother‐Scholar‐Activist

Bonam

2024

Journal of Social Issues

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Using autoethnography and a Critical Race Theory framework, I recount how I experienced racism denial in my son's school district during 2019–2020 (his kindergarten year). To build this counternarrative, I analyzed multiple data sources (e.g., field notes, personal journal entries, public documents) and, across three chapters, describe my interactions with key school district gatekeepers while advocating for racial equity‐oriented school policies. These policies included: a school desegregation program (Chapter 1), a plan to incorporate critical race education into one school's curriculum (Chapter 2), and a district‐level endorsement of critical race and ethnic studies K‐12 curriculum in California schools (Chapter 3). In responding to this advocacy, the district professed surface‐level support for racial equity, but I saw this form of support as racism denial merely masquerading as support for racial equity. I explain why I interpreted the district's responses in this way, and how I experienced these responses from my perspective as a mixed Black mother, scholar, and activist. I end by reflecting on how these experiences forced me to integrate my mother‐scholar‐activist identities in uncomfortable and productive ways, and with recommendations for how psychological researchers and K‐12 schools can support racial equity.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Fighting Racism Denial; Becoming a Mother‐Scholar‐Activist

Bonam

2024

Journal of Social Issues

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“…I have learned through the journeys that this research and book has taken me on that as Indigenous peoples, our individual and collective survivance and refusals of these so called traumas is immensely valuable and important. Although displacement, genocide, racism, surveillance, and incarceration continue, ancestral and contemporary healing practices that reconnect us also sustain and nourish us into our futures (Vega 2018). This is not the first time I write about my ancestral pueblo-San Miguel Nocutzepo.…”

Section: Breaking Silencesmentioning

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Indigenous Reflections on Identity, Trauma, and Healing: Navigating Belonging and Power

Urrieta

2019

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Indigenous people are survivors of what some scholars have called the nexus of bio–psycho–social–cultural–spiritual intergenerational trauma. The effects of these multi-plex traumas brought on by European colonialism(s) reverberate into the present and affect Indigenous peoples at various scales, from local interpersonal relations to larger macro scales of geo-regional displacement. Indigenous peoples, however, have also survived the traumas of displacement, genocide, racism, surveillance, and incarceration by sustaining systems of ancestral and contemporary healing practices that contribute to individual and collective survivance. In this essay, I explore intergenerational rememberings of Indigenous identity, trauma, and healing based on personal, family, and community memory. Through rememberings, I seek to deconstruct the Western constructs of identity and trauma, arguing that these conceptions create trappings based on the exclusions of membership that support power hierarchies that perpetuate the dehumanization of Native peoples. By exposing these trappings, I will engage in my own decolonizing healing process by reclaiming, reconnecting, rewriting and rerighting histories. Finally, through an I/We Indigenous philosophy of belonging, I will argue that emotion can be an important saber (knowing) to help understand Indigenous identities as connected, collective, and ancestral ways of knowing and being that re/humanize Indigenous collective relational understandings.

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“…My testimonio weaves together fragments corresponding to specific lived experiences that shape how I approach my work at the CHBC. By threading these fragments together, I reclaim my wholeness and the complete arc of my story (Vega 2018).…”

Section: Damarysmentioning

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“Love and Prayer Sustain Our Work” Building Collective Power, Health, and Healing as the Community Health Board Coalition

Espinoza

Narruhn

2020

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Over the course of the last few months, we have seen how structural racism has compounded the impact of COVID-19 on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the United States, resulting in disparate rates of infection and death. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how the consequences of deeply entrenched inequities are fatal to BIPOC communities, whether death is a result of the novel coronavirus or the everyday violence of structural racism that manifests as poor health outcomes. We examine the formation of the Community Health Board Coalition (CHBC), a BIPOC-led organization in Washington state, to show how 15 communities have organized for health and healing amidst the collective trauma associated with COVID-19. We note that biopower—literally power over life, the unspeakable—and slow violence have been normalized and escalated in our communities. The use of an antiracist lens and decolonial practices have assisted us in our survivance (survival and resistance). We use autoethnography and testimonio as decolonial theory and method to give voice to individual and collective experiences that brought us to our roles as CHBC founding members and inaugural cochairs.

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Othermotherwork:testimonioand the refusal of historical trauma

Cited by 6 publications

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Fighting Racism Denial; Becoming a Mother‐Scholar‐Activist

Fighting Racism Denial; Becoming a Mother‐Scholar‐Activist

Indigenous Reflections on Identity, Trauma, and Healing: Navigating Belonging and Power

“Love and Prayer Sustain Our Work” Building Collective Power, Health, and Healing as the Community Health Board Coalition

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