Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Vancouver’s Hapa Festival, All Grown Up The Tyee Vancouver, British Columbia Canada 2015-09-03 Christopher Cheung From one generation to another, an identity conversation continues. Jeff Chiba Stearns is about to be a father in November, and there’s an important conversation he wants to have with his daughter that he never had with his own family…

  • All Mixed Up: examining mixed children and unions The Source Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Volume 16, Issue 5 (September 8-22, 2015) Florence Hwang Sharon Chang says she embodies “mixedness.” Chang’s thoughtful examination about growing up multiracial at this year’s Hapapalooza festival: “Raising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop” will be at the Heartwood Community Café, Sept. 19…

  • Are You Sensitive to Interracial Children’s Special Identity Needs? Young Children Volume 42, Number 2 (January 1987) pages 53-59 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Early childhood educators continually adjust to families they serve. Educators must provide for children not living with their natural parents, children from abusive families, children who rarely see their…

  • Redefining Racial Categories: The Dynamics of Identity Among Brazilian-Americans Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora Volume 33, Issue 1, 2015 pages 45-65 DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2014.909732 Catarina Fritz Department of Sociology and Corrections Minnesota State University, Mankato Research based on a sample of Brazilian youth living in Massachusetts reveals a variety of responses…

  • Adolescent Racial Identity: Self-Identification of Multiple and “Other” Race/Ethnicities Urban Education Published online before print: 2015-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/0042085915574527 Bryn Harris, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Colorado, Denver Russell D. Ravert, Associate Professor Department of Human Development & Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Amanda L. Sullivan, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis…

  • Locating queer-mixed experiences: Narratives of geography and migration Qualitative Social Work Volume 14, Number 5 (September 2015) pages 651-669 DOI: 10.1177/1473325014561250 Kimberly D. Hudson School of Social Work University of Washington Gita R. Mehrotra, Assistant Professor of Social Work Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Social work scholarship concerned with mixed-race and queer identities is growing…

  • Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work The New York Times 2015-08-29 Benedict Carey, Science Reporter The field of psychology sustained a damaging blow Thursday: A new analysis found that only 36 percent of findings from almost 100 studies in the top three psychology journals held up when the original experiments were rigorously redone.…

  • Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status Sociological Perspectives Published online before print 2015-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/0731121415602133 Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Tony N. Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee The present study extends previous work on distress that arises from…

  • Priming Race: Does the Mind Inhibit Categorization by Race at Encoding or Recall? Social Psychological and Personality Science Published online before print: 2015-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/1948550615602934 David Pietraszewski Center for Adaptive Rationality Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Recent research shows that racial categorization can be reduced by contexts in which race does not…

  • Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children Da Capo Press 2003 224 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780756793401 Paperback ISBN: 9780738209500 Donna Jackson Nakazawa “Am I black or white or am I American?” “Why don’t my eyes look like yours?” “Why do people always call attention to my ‘different’ hair?” Helping…