Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Identity Development/Psychology
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Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy Through Critical Conversations Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Volume 31, Issue 4 (October 2005) pages 399–411 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2005.tb01579.x Teresa McDowell, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Counseling Psychology Lewis & Clark University, Portland Oregon Lucrezia Ingoglia Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare Takiko Serizawa Family Service Associates Christina Holland Behavioral…
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Ethnic identity, ego identity, and psychological well-being among mixed-ethnic Arab-European adolescents in Israel British Journal of Developmental Psychology Volume 24, Issue 4 (November 2006) pages 669–679 DOI: 10.1348/026151005X59196 Hisham Motkal Abu-Rayya The Unit of Psychology Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland This study explored the relationship between ethnic identity, ego identity, and psychological wellbeing among mixed-ethnic…
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This essay focuses on how immigrant mothers and second generation interracial daughters construct, perform, and negotiate racial and ethnic hybrid identities.
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The development of memory for own- and other-race faces Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 98, Issue 4 (December 2007) pages 233–242 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.004 Gail S. Goodman Department of Psychology University of California, Davis University of Oslo Liat Sayfan Department of Psychology University of California, Davis Jennifer S. Lee Department of Psychology Cabrillo College, Aptos, California…
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Some Observations on Identity Problems in Children of Negro-White Marriages Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease Volume 146, Issue 3 (March 1968) pages 249-256 Joseph D. Teicher (1912-2000) University of Southern California School of Medicine The Los Angeles County General Hospital population includes every case, and, inevitably, many Negro-white families present themselves for service at…
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Are Mixed-Race Children Better Adjusted? Time Magazine 2009-02-21 John Cloud Americans like answers in black and white, a cultural trait we confirmed last year when the biracial man running for President was routinely called “black”. The flattening of Barack Obama’s complex racial background shouldn’t have been surprising. Many multiracial historical figures in the U.S. have…
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Facts for Families: Multiracial Children American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Number 71, October 1999 2 pages Multiracial children are one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population. The number of mixed-race families in America is steadily increasing, due to a rise in interracial marriages and relationships, as well as an increase…