Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Secret Agent Insiders to Whiteness: Mixed Race Women Negotiating Structure and Agency University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2007 325 pages Silvia Cristina Bettez, Assistant Professor Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations University of North Carolina, Greensboro A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial…

  • “Being Raised by White People”: Navigating Racial Difference Among Adopted Multiracial Adults Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 71, Issue 1, February 2009 Pages 80-94 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00581.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago There are increasing numbers of multiracial families created through marriage, adoption, birth, and a growing…

  • Communicative Correlates of Satisfaction, Family Identity, and Group Salience in Multiracial/Ethnic Families Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 71, Issue 4 Pages 819-832 Published Online: 2009-10-23 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00637.x Jordan Soliz, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln Allison R. Thorson, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies University of San Francisco Christine E. Rittenour, Assistant Professor…

  • Deconstructing Race: Biracial Adolescents’ Fluid Racial Self-labels 2008-12-01 Alethea Rollins University of North Carolina, Greensboro Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro Biracial people shatter the idea of effortless categorization of race, identity, and group membership. Multirace membership forces scholars to examine what race is, how they…

  • “Secret Daughter” tells her story of survival. It traces June’s astonishing discoveries about her mother and about her own fierce determination to thrive.

  • Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies. Memories & Visions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. San Francisco State University 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-11 The third tri-annual interdisciplinary Southeast Asians in the Diaspora conference will take place at San Francisco State University. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to sizable populations of Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Lao, Malaysian,…

  • “Obama’s People”: A New Identity for Biracials and Mixed Heritage Xlibris Press 2009 102 Pages ISBN: 1-4363-9510-0 (Trade Paperback 6×9 ) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-9510-6 (Trade Paperback 6×9 ) ISBN: 1-4363-9511-9 (Trade Hardback 6×9 ) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-9511-3 (Trade Hardback 6×9 ) Phillip MacFarland Since President Barack Obama is from a biracial heritage and is now the leader…

  • American Identities: California Short Stories of Multiple Ancestries Xlibris Press 2008 263 Pages ISBN: 1-4363-7705-6 (Trade Paperback 6×9) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-7705-8 (Trade Paperback 6×9) Eliud Martínez, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside In many parts of the country, especially in California, when one passes by a school or strolls across…

  • Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South University of Georgia Press 2005-03-28 60 pages Illustrated, Trim size: 5.5 x 8.25 ISBN: 978-0-8203-2731-0 Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men—including traders, soldiers, and…

  • Drawing Battle Lines Sarah Lawrence College Magazine Spring 2003: Who Are You Catherine McKinley[-Davis] was one of only a few thousand African-American and biracial children adopted by white couples in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, her consciousness grew as she did. Her very identity—composed both of the whiteness and…