Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • crossings: undone presents, pyrrhic futures The State Dubai, U.A.E. Voicing 2013-03-30 Tiana Reid Columbia University “Cyaan live split. Not in this world.” The first time I read Michelle Cliff’s 1987 book No Telephone to Heaven, I immediately forgot which character had said this line. Was it Harry/Harriet, the queer Jamaican character? Or was it Clare…

  • Identity Production in Figured Worlds: How Some Multiracial Students Become Racial Atravesados/as The Urban Review June 2013 Aurora Chang Using Holland et al.’s (Identity and agency in cultural worlds, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1998) theory of identity and their concept of figured worlds, this article provides an overview of how twenty-five undergraduates of color came…

  • The Influence of Spirituality on the Implicit Identity of Racial African American Women of Ethnically Cherokee Ancestry Argosy University, Washington, D.C. December 2009 141 pages Daryl Harris Thorne Submitted to the Faculty of Argosy University – Washington, DC Campus College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences In partial fulfillment of The requirements for the  Degree of…

  • Is race erased? Decoding race from patterns of neural activity when skin color is not diagnostic of group boundaries Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Volume 8, Issue 7 (October 2013) pages 750-755 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss063 Kyle G. Ratner Department of Psychology New York University Christian Kaul Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science New York…

  • A Lot Like You DePaul University Center for Intercultural Programs LPC-Cortelyou Commons 2324 N Fremont St. 2013-10-15, 18:00-19:00 CDT (Local Time) Join documentary filmmaker Eliaichi Kimaro for a screening and discussion of scenes from A Lot Like Me, her own original autobiographical journey of self-discovery. Her film follows her experience as a mixed-race, first-generation American…

  • The Construction of Racial Identity in Children of Mixed Parentage: Mixed Metaphors Jessica Kingsley Publishers 1996 224 pages 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85302-376-7 Ilan Katz, Professor Social Policy Research Center University of New South Wales, Australia For several decades the issues of race, identity and child development have been of…

  • Latina/o Healing Practices: Mestizo and Indigenous Perspectives Routledge 2008-05-19 360 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-95420-4 Edited by: Brian McNeill, Professor and director of training for the Counseling Psychology Program Washington State University Joseph M. Cervantes, Professor in the Department of Counseling California State University, Fullerton This edited volume focuses on the role of traditional or indigenous…

  • ‘Ethnic cleansing’, ‘institutional racism’, and ‘social exclusion’ are just some of the terms used to describe one of the most pressing social issues facing today’s societies: prejudice and intergroup discrimination. Invariably, these pervasive social problems can be traced back to differences in religion, ethnicity, or countless other bases of group membership: the social categories to…

  • One Drop of Love: A Multimedia Solo Performance on Racial Identity by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at James R. Fitzgerald Theater James R. Fitzgerald Theater Cambridge Rindge & Latin School 459 Broadway Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Friday, 2013-08-30, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Jillian Pagan, Director Produced by: Ben Affleck, Matt…

  • “It’s Only Other People Who Make Me Feel Black”: Acculturation, Identity, and Agency in a Multicultural Community Political Psychology Published online: 2013-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/pops.12020 Caroline Howarth, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology London School of Economics, United Kingdom Wolfgang Wagner, Professor of Psychology Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain…