Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Generation Mix? A Statement of Purpose Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2011-06-13 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim Call it a quarter-life crisis. A change in the winds, perhaps. Maybe it’s my sad stack of rejection letters from graduate schools. Whatever the case may be, of late, I’ve been having a bit of an intellectual, (even…

  • The Role of Reflected Appraisals in Racial Identity: The Case of Multiracial Asians Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 67, Number 2 (June 2004) pages 115-131 DOI: 10.1177/019027250406700201 Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing minorities in the United States and show the highest outmarriage rate; yet little…

  • Hoskins explores the everyday lives of people of Asian/white and Asian/black heritage to uncover the role of our society’s white-black continuum in shaping racial identity. Mixing intimate personal stories with cutting-edge theoretical analysis, he directly confronts the notion that multiracial identity provides an easy solution for our society’s racial stratification.

  • Mixed-Race Students Wonder How Many Boxes to Check The New York Times 2011-06-14 Susan Saulny Jacques Steinberg Multiracial students confess to spending sleepless nights worrying about how best to answer the race question on college applications. Some say they wonder whether their answers will be perceived as gamesmanship or a reflection of reality… Read the…

  • On College Forms, a Question of Race, or Races, Can Perplex The New York Times 2011-06-13 Susan Saulny Jacques Steinberg HOUSTON — At the beginning of the college application season last fall, Natasha Scott, a high school senior of mixed racial heritage in Beltsville, Md., vented about a personal dilemma on College Confidential, the go-to…

  • Defining multiracial citizens The Boston Globe 2011-06-12 Brittany Danielson, Globe Correspondent Evolving ideas about identity mean mixed-race people don’t have to settle for ‘other’ n a suburban Massachusetts classroom in 1985, a 7-year-old Chris Olds raised his hand to grab his teacher’s attention; he wasn’t sure which bubble to fill in for race on a…

  • Drôle de Félix : A Search for Cultural Identity on the Road Wide Screen Volume 3, Number 1 (2011) ISSN: 1757-3920 Zélie Asava With the emergence of la culture beur in the 1980s—and the birth of a new type of filmmaking influenced by postcolonial politics, world cinema, the new hood films of the African-American community…

  • “You Think You Cute!” Perceived Attractiveness, Inter-Group Conflict, And Their Effect On Black/White Biracial Identity Choices Vanderbilt University December 2006 31 pages Jennifer Patrice Sims Thesis Submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology The 2000 Census…

  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 1 (2011) Pages 154-155 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar004 Brenda E. Stevenson, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. By Annette Gordon-Reed. (New York: Norton, 2008. 802 pp. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3. Paper, ISBN 978-0-393-33776-1.)…

  • Racial Identity Development and Psychological Adjustment in Biracial Individuals of Minority/Minority Racial Group Descent Marquette University Spring 2011 Kizzie Paule Walker A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirments for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Based on the theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism and race as a social…