The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream by Robert C. Hauhart Mitja Sardoč

Author:Robert C. Hauhart, Mitja Sardoč [Robert C. Hauhart, Mitja Sardoč]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367895990
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

Elle expressed similar admiration and a simultaneous wish to distance herself from her mother’s life:

I respect the hell out of her to do a great job of raising three kids … she took on a lot of responsibility … she did all the housework all the cooking, she was our chauffeur, she did it very well. All her kids are out of the home, and she’s struggling with it a lot.

(Crossley, 2011. Personal interview)

Here Elle noted the challenge her mother was experiencing because of her identity being wholly tied up with being a mother. Bette openly shared with me the uphill battles she faced at a young age, including coming out as queer and the shock in moving from a racially and socioeconomically diverse city in southern California to a predominately white college town in the Northeast. When referencing her mother’s life, she acknowledged that she and her mother were similar in having big dreams and aspirations, but that her own arrival derailed her mother’s dreams:

Because she had me when she was 19 and she was an emerging artist and had the opportunity to go to … a major university … art institute, a full ride, but with [the birth of] me … everything was put on hold. Everything about her has been being a mom, to me.

(Crossley, 2011. Personal interview)

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