Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Multiracial College Students: Understanding Interpersonal Self-Concept in the First Year The University of Michigan 2010 151 pages Mark Allen Kamimura A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Education) in The University of Michigan 2010 This purpose of this study was to explore the differences between mixed…

  • Germany’s history has established a unique context for biracial individuals. For one, foreigners that look different have a hard time being accepted as German citizens. While the most prominent political activists of the Afro-German movement were women, Afro-German men chose the venue of music to express their struggle for identity and acceptance. Their contribution to…

  • Adjustment Problems in Adolescence: Are Multiracial Children at Risk? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Volume 70, Issue 4 (October 2000) pages 433–444 DOI: 10.1037/h0087744 M. Elise Radina, Associate Professor of Family Studies & Social Work Miami University, Ohio Teresa M. Cooney, Associate Professor of Human Develpopment and Family Studies University of Missouri Data from a national…

  • Relationship Quality Between Multiracial Adolescents and Their Biological Parents American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Volume 70, Issue 4 (October 2000) pages 445–454 DOI: 10.1037/h0087763 M. Elise Radina, Associate Professor of Family Studies & Social Work Miami University, Ohio Teresa M. Cooney, Associate Professor of Human Develpopment and Family Studies University of Missouri National survey data were…

  • Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism Volume 5, Number 2, 2005 pages 1-29 E-ISSN: 1547-8424 Print ISSN: 1536-6936 DOI: 10.1353/mer.2005.0013 Miriam Thaggert, Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies University of Iowa In Passing Nella Larsen seems to suggest that identity is a hazy fiction one tells that…

  • ‘It’s like I’m part of every race’ The Straits Times Malaysia 2010-08-08 Edora Mayangsari Lopez, 18 Eurasian-Malay The psychology student at the Management Development Institute of Singapore has a Eurasian father and a Malay-Javanese mother. Both of them are Singaporeans. She is the younger of two children and has relatives in Europe, Australia, Malaysia and…

  • Voices from the Gaps: Kym Ragusa Voices from the Gaps University of Minnesota 2007-04-24 Shalee Dettmann Joey Grihalva Jenna Fodness Gaushia Thao I don’t know where I was conceived, but I was made in Harlem. Its topography is mapped on my body: the borderlines between neighborhoods marked by streets that were forbidden to cross, the…

  • Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility Peter Lang Publishing Group 2010 146 pages Hardback ISBN 978-1-4331-0803-7 Edited by Cybelle H. McFadden, Assistant Professor of French University of North Carolina, Greensboro Sandrine F. Teixidor, Assistant Professor of French Studies Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility underscores the writing of authors who foreground…

  • Perceptions, Representation, and Identity Development of Multiracial Students in American Higher Education Journal of Student Affairs at New York University Volume VI, 2010 pages 1-6 Roberta Garbarini-Philippe New York University In my article I first examine some historical facts and policy issues related to multiracial individuals, giving a few examples of how this population has…

  • Transcending “The Box”: Multiracial Subjects as the New Face of Reality CSW Update Newsletter UCLA Center for the Study of Women February 2008 pages 24-27 Kunti Dudakia I hate it. I hate the feeling I get when I am forced in online surveys, job applications, or school admissions to check a box to identify my…