Mothers, Daughters, and Home

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Hana's immigrant generation is called the 'one and a half'- those who came to the U.S. with their families as young children. Not 1st gen like her mom- they're more attached to their home countries. Not 2nd gen like her kids- they're settled in their Americanness. She's caught in the middle- and it's weighing on her. Where is home? We hear the stories of two women and their mothers- Khadega from Sudan, and Melly from Haiti- plus Hana ponders with her own mom and daughter.

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0:00.0	Lila? Yes or no? I want to tell you something.
0:05.0	Do tell. Do tell. I'm all ears.
0:09.0	You know, there's this moment when I'm flying into Sudan,
0:16.0	and I see the tops of mosque minarets,
0:20.0	and the rooftops of houses,
0:24.0	and the plane starts to fly lower,
0:27.0	and I see the Nile, you know, the river just snaking through the city.
0:33.0	That's a moment. I just feel emotions come up.
0:38.0	You get emotional flying in like that.
0:41.0	I mean, this is the place where you come from.
0:43.0	You can feel it. It feels like coming home.
0:46.0	Yeah. Yeah. But what?
0:51.0	You know, this has always been part of my story,
0:55.0	but recently, I've been thinking about it a lot.
1:00.0	This question of, where do I feel home?
1:04.0	Where is home?
1:07.0	Is it here, this place that I built a life in,
1:10.0	with my husband and my children,
1:13.0	or is home Sudan?
1:16.0	You know, it's the place of my ancestry,
1:20.0	and where I've spent some of the most formative moments of my life.
1:24.0	But why is this important for you to understand right now
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