An Inter-View on Motherhood: Racial Politics and Motherhood in Late Capitalist Sport

Abstract

This article explores Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) player, Jackie Moore's experience as a celebrity sport mother and my experience interviewing her. I use reflexive auto-ethnographic (Denzin, 1997, 2003; Tierney, 2002) and performance ethnographic (Denzin, 2003; Denzin & Lincoln, 2000) practices to provide an active dramaturgical interrogation of both the contextual moment for women's professional basketball and motherhood and the personal experience of interviewing. By using a reflexive auto-ethnographic lens to gain an "Inter View (Kvale,1996) of my own positionality during the interviewing process and using performance ethnography to explore the emotions, the cultural positioning and experiences of Jackie Moore as an athlete and a mother this article intends to provide an alternative and Inter View of the personal interview as a research practice.

Keywords

reflexive interviews auto-ethnography race motherhood Women's National Basketball Association

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