Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • 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…

  • CRN 47519/47520-Mixed Race Asian Americans University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fall 2008 Kent Ono, Professor of Asian American Studies, Communication, and Institute of Communications Research Part of Asian American Ethnic Groups (AAS-450) This course provides an introduction to the study of mixed race Asian Americans. From discussions of famous mixed race people, such as Tiger Woods,…