Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Multiracial Teens Talk About Their Identity Rip Tides Women’s eNews 2015-10-27 Stephanie Geier, Teen Voices for Women’s eNews The pressures and rejections come from within, from peers, from different sides of their families. “No matter how hard I tried I was always too white for the black kids and too black for the white kids,”…

  • Counseling the Multiracial Population: Couples, Individuals, and Families Microtraining Associates 2003 01:15:00 Kelley Kenney Mark Kenney This film presents the worldview experiences of interracial couples, multiracial individuals, and multiracial families including trans-racial adoptive families. It also makes clear suggestions for action in the interview. Six live demonstrations showcase typical issues such as concerns and challenges…

  • Just Black?: Multi-Racial Identity Filmakers Library 1992 00:59:00 Produced by: Francine Winddance Twine Jonathan F. Warren Francisco Ferrandiz Most of us at one time or other are faced with an official form requiring us to “check” the applicable ethnic designation. What “box” does a person check if his or her parents come from different racial…

  • Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social Construction of Race American Psychologist Volume 60, Number 1, January 2005 pages 16–26 DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.60.1.16 Audrey Smedley Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Medicine Brian D. Smedley Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Medicine Racialized science seeks to…

  • Changes in racial categorization over time and health status: an examination of multiracial young adults in the USA Ethnicity & Health Published online: 2015-06-08 DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2015.1042431 Karen M. Tabb, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Objective: Multiracial (two or more races) American health related to racial stability over the life course is…

  • Esther Cepeda: The complexities of race and ethnicity GazetteXtra Janesville, Wisconsin 2015-10-17 Esther Cepeda, Columnist Washington Post Writers Group CHICAGO Our society gives a lot of lip service to the importance of diversity in fields such as science, medicine and technology because multicultural people bring unique viewpoints, varied life experiences and new ideas. Rarely do…

  • Researcher Seeking to Examine the Experiences of Multiracial Individuals and Their Negotiation of Social Spaces From a Strength 2015-10-16 Erika Noriega I am currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology Program and in the process of recruiting participants for my dissertation study. I am interested…

  • Multiethnic Adults Grapple With Questions of Identity KQED News San Francisco, California 2015-10-14 Adizah Eghan In his 1964 Nobel Prize lecture, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described humanity as a “world house,” filled with family of all backgrounds who must somehow learn to live with each other. Within the borders of our countries, cities…

  • Health Care, Research Failing to Adapt to U.S.’s Growing Multiracial Population School of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2015-10-12 Data collection methods in research and health care settings have lagged behind in adapting to the rapidly growing population of multiracials, according to studies led by social work professor Karen M. Tabb Dina Multiracial people…

  • Disparities in Health Services Use Among Multiracial American Young Adults Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health First online: 2015-09-29 8 pages DOI: 10.1007/s10903-015-0289-7 Karen M. Tabb, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Christopher R. Larrison, Associate Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Shinwoo Choi School of Social Work University of…