Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Utilizing the Strengths of Our Cultures: Therapy with Biracial Women and Girls Women & Therapy Volume 27 Issue 1 & 2 (January 2004) pages 33-43 ISSN: 1541-0315 (electronic); 0270-3149 (paper) DOI: 10.1300/J015v27n01_03 Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Associate Professor California Polytechnic State University Lisa M. Edwards, Assistant Professor, Director of Child/Adolescent Community Program Marquette University Historically, psychology…

  • Shades of Community and Conflict: Biracial Adults of African-American and Jewish-American Heritages The Wright Institute, Berkeley, California 1998 152 pages Publisher: Dissertation.com ISBN-10: 1581120249 ISBN-13: 9781581120240 Josyln C. Segal A dissertation submitted to the Write Institute Graduate School of Psychology in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosphy in Psychology…

  • Clusters of racial identity among Black/White biracial college students: A mixed method investigation University of Michigan August 2006 197 pages Publication ID: AAT 3208292 Yvette C. Clinton A dissertation submitted in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology) in the University of Michigan Historically, in the United States Black/White…

  • Grey girls: Biracial identity development and psychological adjustment among women The Wright Institute September 2008 141 pages Publication Number: AAT 3306485  Andrea Catherine Green A dissertation submitted to the Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Psychology The purpose of this study was to…

  • The New Multiracial Student: Where Do We Start? The Vermont Connection Volume 31 (2010) pages 128-135 Jackie Hyman University of Vermont Jackie Hyman earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008, and is anticipating her graduation from HESA in 2010. Having gone through periods of doubt and confusion throughout…

  • “What is black, white and yellow all over?”: An analysis of the racial experiences of people of Asian/white and Asian/black heritage University of Southern California May 2007 208 pages Bruce Calvin Hoskins Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Southern California In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the…

  •  Mixed Dreams: A Symposium on Multiracial Identities in the United States 2010-10-15 through 2010-10-20 Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio At its root, Mixed Dreams: A Symposium on Multiracial Identities in the U.S. aims to create a space to discuss and interrogate historical and contemporary perspectives on multiraciality and the “multiracial experiences” of people identifying as bi-racial,…

  • “Girl, You Are Not Morena. We Are Negras!”: Questioning the Concept of “Race” in Southern Bahia, Brazil Ethos Volume 35, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 383-409 DOI: 10.1525/eth.2007.35.3.383 Michael D. Baran, Preceptor in Expository Writing Harvard University In 2003, teachers at the municipal high school in Belmonte, Brazil, began presenting students with a radically different…

  • The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness Journal of Linguistic Anthropology Volume 11, Issue 1 (June 2001) pages 131-146 DOI: 10.1525/jlin.2001.11.1.131 Anita Puckett, Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University How this binary system is discursively constituted depends upon the ways in which elements of a repertoire interconnect…

  • Ethnic Studies 064: Mixed Race Descent in the Americas Mills College, Oakland, California Fall 2010 Melinda Micco, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies This is an introductory course that examines the historical and theoretical development of identities and of communities of multiracial and multiethnic people. In the academy, in government, and in popular culture, the lives…