Latina mothers and small-town racisms: Creating narratives of dignity and moral education in North Carolina

Within the context of relatively new immigration and settlement in North Ca rolina, this ethnographic study highlights Latina mothers' narratives and c onversations about a moral family education. Their narratives involved the claiming of el hogar (the home space) in the midst of the English-speaking community's attempts to define their families and childrearing practices as "problem." With a race-based feminist perspective, this article examines t he role of the mothers' counternarratives in contesting their deficit frami ng, producing "educated" identities, and creating community in the rural So uth.