Realizing blacknpinay: Negotiating Notions of Authenticity in Janet Stickmon’s Crushing Soft Rubies

Authors

Teresa Hodges, San Francisco State UniversityFollow

First Page

145

Last Page

145

Language

EN

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Despite racism, challenges from family and communities, and oppression within schooling, Janet Stickmon’s memoir Crushing Soft Rubies exposes how she navigates and ultimately finds home in a world that does not always work in her favor as a mixed Black and Filipina woman; however, it also shows how she realizes her agency in the process. In using her counternarrative as a tool for engaging critical dialogue about identity, power, and authenticity, her text is valuable in these negotiations that help one to be at home in one’s identities.

Recommended Citation

Hodges, Teresa (2012) "Realizing blacknpinay: Negotiating Notions of Authenticity in Janet Stickmon’s Crushing Soft Rubies," Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies: Vol. 3, Article 7.
Available at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/aaldp/vol3/iss1/7