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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Month: March 2010
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Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees Family Process Volume 49, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 26-42 DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago This study uses the case of transracially adopted multiracial adults to highlight an alternative family context and…
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Resolving “Other” Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals Women & Therapy Volume 9, Issue 1 & 2 (May 1990) pages 185 – 205 DOI: 10.1300/J015v09n01_11 Maria P. P. Root The current paper describes the phenomenological experience of marginal socio-ethnic status for biracial individuals. A metamodel for identity resolution for individuals who struggle with other status…