Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels & the Social Construction of Race Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies Volume II (October 2009) 20 pages Adriane E. Gamble Adriane E. Gamble presents part of her honors thesis in her paper “Hapas: Emerging Identity, Emerging Terms and Labels, and the Social Construction of Race.” Her paper…

  • The identity development of mixed race individuals in Canada University of Alberta Spring 2010 131 pages Monica Das A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Psychological Studies in Education The purpose of this study was to explore…

  • Triumphant Miscegenation: Reflections on Beauty and Race in Brazil Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 83-97 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082954 Alexander Edmonds, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Sociology University of Amsterdam In Brazil racial mixture, mestiçagem has been a dominant theme in the political and cultural re-imagination of the nation in the…

  • Identity problems in biracial youth The Leader University of Minnesota College of Education & Human Development Fall 2004 Charlote M. Nitardy, Early Childhood Assessment Program Coordinator Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota While there is little data on the number of biracial children in the US, there is a consensus among demographers that we are…

  • ‘Passing’ Across The Color Line In The Jazz Age National Public Radio All Things Considered: You Must Read This 2010-04-07 Heidi W. Durrow Heidi W. Durrow is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Law School. Her debut novel is “The Girl Who Fell From The Sky.” There are novels that…

  • In “One of the Family,” Brenda Macdougall draws on diverse written and oral sources and employs the concept of wahkootowin—the Cree term for a worldview that privileges family and values relatedness between all beings—to trace the emergence of a distinct Metis community at Île à la Crosse in northern Saskatchewan.

  • The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York The American Indian Quarterly Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2010) pages 83-108 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0087 Tom Arne Midtrød, Professor of History University of Iowa In 1709 the English Board of Trade recommended the settlement of three thousand…

  • In the United States, the notion of racial “passing” is usually associated with blacks and other minorities who seek to present themselves as part of the white majority. Yet as Baz Dreisinger demonstrates in this fascinating study, another form of this phenomenon also occurs, if less frequently, in American culture: cases in which legally white…

  • “… But … But I am Brown.” The Ascribed Categories of Identity: Children and Young People of Mixed Parentage Child Care in Practice Volume 13, Issue 2 (April 2007) pages 83 – 94 DOI: 10.1080/13575270701201169 Annabel Goodyer, Principal Lecturer in Social Work London South Bank University Toyin Okitikpi This paper explores the concept of the…

  • Biracial Identity Development and Recommendations in Therapy Psychiatry (Edgemont) Volume 5, Number 11 (November 2008) pages 37-44 Raushanah Hud-Aleem, DO Department of Psychiatry Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Jacqueline Countryman, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Identity development is an…