Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Self-Perceived Minority Prototypicality and Identification in Mixed Race Individuals: Implications for Self-Esteem and Affirmative Action SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada   Jessica J. Good, Assistant Professor of Psychology Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina George F. Chavez Department of Psychology Rutgers…

  • From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity Among Americans Praeger Publishers an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group 1998 160 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 0-275-96744-1; ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96744-4 Kathleen Odell Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey Is a person with both a white and African American parent…

  • Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era Praeger 2000-11-30 208 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89789-760-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-313-06507-1 Marion Kilson, Dean of the Graduate School Salem State College, Massachusetts Born in the 1960s, the middle-class Biracial Americans of this study are part of a transitional cohort…

  • Relative/Outsider: The Art and Politics of Identity Among Mixed Heritage Students Praeger Publishers 2001-05-30 200 pages Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-56750-551-1 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-56750-550-4 e-Book ISBN: 978-0-313-07598-8 DOI: 10.1336/1567505511 Kendra R. Wallace, Assistant Professor of Education University of Maryland, Baltimore The author explores the ethnic and racial identity formation among…

  • Meeting the Needs of Multiethnic and Multiracial Children in Schools Merrill an imprint of Pearson 2003-10-23 256 pages ISBN-10: 0205376088 ISBN-13:  9780205376087 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Maria I. Cruz-Janzen, Associate Professor of Multicultural Education Florida Atlantic University From one of the premiere experts on the subject comes this “crash course” for teachers…

  • America has been the breeding ground of a “biracial baby boom” for the past 25 years. Unfortunately, there has been a dearth of information regarding how racially mixed people identify and view themselves and how they relate to one another. “Racially Mixed People in America” steadily bridges this gap and offers a comprehensive look at…

  • Raising Biracial Children AltaMira Press an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing November 2005 208pp Cloth: 0-7591-0900-1 / 978-0-7591-0900-1 Paper 0-7591-0901-X / 978-0-7591-0901-8 Kerry Ann Rockquemore University of Illinois Tracey A. Laszloffy   As the multiracial population in the United States continues to rise, new models for our understanding of mixed-race children and how their conception…

  • This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly into the boxes society requires them to check.

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Second Edition) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. December 2007 220 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-7425-6054-6 / 978-0-7425-6054-3 Paper ISBN: 0-7425-6055-4 / 978-0-7425-6055-0 By Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma Foreword by Joe Feagin Beyond Black is a groundbreaking study of the dynamic meaning of racial identity for multiracial people…

  • Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era Lynne Rienner Publishers 2006 405 pages Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-58826-372-8 Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-58826-398-8 Edited by David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The experiences and voices of multiracial individuals are challenging current categories of race, profoundly altering the meaning of racial identity and…