Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Family/Parenting
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Understanding the Racial Identity Development of Multiracial Young Adults through their Family, Social and Environmental Experiences Catholic University of America 2012 184 pages Lisa Sechrest-Ehrhardt A DISSERTATION Submitted to the faculty of the National Catholic School of Social Service of The Catholic University of America In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree Doctor…
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Contemporary US multiple heritage couples, individuals, and families: Issues, concerns, and counseling implications Counselling Psychology Quarterly Volume 25, Issue 2, (June 2012) Special Issue: Race, Culture, and Mental Health: Metissage, Mestizaje, Mixed “Race”, and Beyond pages 99-112 DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2012.674682 Mark Kenney, Adjunct Professor Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Multicultural Education and Consulting, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania Kelley…
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Racial/Ethnic Variation in Parenting Styles: The Experience of Multiracial Adolescents Bowling Green State University December 2011 57 pages Amanda N. House According to the 2009 American Community Survey, 2.4% of the U.S. population consists of individuals who identify as two or more races, or multiracial. Nearly half of this estimate captures children under the age…
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Normal Families Facing Unique Challenges: The Psychosocial Functioning of Multiracial Couples, Parents and Children The New School Psychology Bulletin Volume 9, Number 1 (2011) Print ISSN: 1931-793X; Online ISSN: 1931-7948 Joshua Wilt Department of Psychology Northwestern University The number of interracial couples in the United States has increased rapidly since anti-miscegenation laws were repealed in…
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The Interracial Family in Children’s Literature The Reading Teacher Volume 31, Number 8 (May, 1978) pages 909-915 Margo Alexandre Long Books about interracial families have just recently begun to reflect America’s pluralistic society. A Discussion of the interracial family (a family unit in which members are of various racial backgrounds) in American children’s literature must…
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Developing identity formation and self-concept in preschool-aged biracial children Early Child Development and Care Volume 111, Issue 1, 1995 (Special Issue: Focus on Caregivers) pages 141-152 DOI: 10.1080/0300443951110110 Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Eleven mothers of biracial preschool-aged children were interviewed regarding identity formation, self-concept development,…