Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Merle Dandridge on “Blasian” Identity and Oprah Winfrey Network’s new summer original series “Greenleaf” CAAM: Center of Asian American Media 2016-06-20 Mitzi Uehara Carter Merle Dandridge started her career on Broadway with leading roles in Spamalot, Aida, Rent, Tarzan, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Not only does she have singing chops, she shines on screen. Dandridge…

  • A Brazilian Artist’s ‘Self-Portraits’ Explore The Beauty Of Interracial Identity The Huffington Post 2016-06-17 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor In honor of mestizaje, Adriana Varejão paints herself donning the markings and ornamentation of Native Americans. In 1976, a Brazilian census asked citizens of the country — for the very first time — to…

  • “What are you?”: Mixed race responses to the racial gaze Ethnicities Published online before print 2015-12-16 DOI: 10.1177/1468796815621938 Jillian Paragg Department of Sociology University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Mixed race scholarship considers the deployment of the term “mixed race” as an identification and theorizes that the operation of the external racial gaze is signaled through…

  • Searching for Identity: Race, adoption and awareness in the millennial generation Medium 2016-05-19 Dwight Smith What happens when a black boy is adopted at birth into a white world where race and racism are ghosts of the past and racial identity is a silly thing to waste time thinking about? As a transracial adult adoptee…

  • Fractionalized: Stories of Biracial Joy, Pain, Struggle and Triumph Madison 365 Madison, Wisconsin 2016-06-25 Mia Sato, Senior University of Wisconsin, Madison Mixed. Multi. One-half-this and one-quarter-that. Biracial, mixed-race, “two or more races.” In a world obsessed with labels, the pressure to claim oneself as part of a racial group is an inescapable reality for a…

  • Book reading with SHARON H. CHANG: Raising Mixed Race Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience 719 South King Street Seattle, Washington 98104 Thursday, 2016-06-02, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Sharon H. Chang has worked with young children and families for over a decade. She is a scholar and activist who focuses on racism,…

  • Understanding the Stressors and Types of Discrimination That Can Affect Multiracial Individuals: Things to Address and Avoid in Psychotherapy Practice Psychotherapy Bulletin Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Volume 50, Issue 2 (2015) pages 56-60 Astrea Greig, PsyD As the multiracial population is vastly growing in the United States (Humes, Jones, & Ramirez, 2011), it…

  • Woman Crush(ing the Patriarchy) Wednesday: Omaris Zunilda Zamora Latina 2016-05-18 Raquel Reichard, Politics & Culture Editor Black and Latina/Chicana feminisms are life-affirming for countless women of color, but in both movements, AfroLatinas are left at the periphery, if acknowledged at all. This week’s #WCW Omaris Zunilda Zamora wants to change that. The Chicago-born, New York-livin’…

  • Michael Dixon is a California-born artist who teaches as an associate professor at Albion College and was recently awarded studio space in New York through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. His paintings direct us toward controversy, self-reflection, and an appreciation for the value of these experiences.

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America – Book Review National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) 2016-04-04 Shauna Harris Rockquemore, Kerry Ann and David L. Brunsma, Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Second Edition) (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). Beyond Black is a groundbreaking study that used both interview and survey data of young black/white…