Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Last year, I predicted 2017 (and the era of Trump more generally) would be a time of renewed faith in the political efficacy of interracial romance and procreation. This prediction was informed by two recent books — one by UC Irvine professor Jared Sexton, the other by NYU professor Tavia Nyong’o — which probe the way racial hybridity is used to avoid reflection and recollection on how white supremacy works. NatGeo’s cover illustration, which codes one biracial twin as “white” and the other as “black,” transmits the idea that racism will be fixed with more lightly bronzed children. This future utopia is one in which children who can pass for white still exist among their tanner peers, but those with dark skin and tightly coiled hair do not. This hope, which imagines a past of white racial “purity,” is a form of anti-blackness itself. Racism and multiracialism can be allies.

Lauren Michele Jackson, “National Geographic Replaces Racist Fictions With Post-racial Fantasies,” New York Magazine, March 16, 2018. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/natl-geographics-racist-fictions-and-post-racial-fantasies.html.

Developing identity formation and self-concept in preschool-aged biracial children

Posted in Articles, Family/Parenting, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, United States on 2012-01-24 01:19Z by Steven

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, developmental issues and problems for their children. The racial attitude levels of their children were ascertained using PRAM II. Analysis includes the presentation of variables the mothers identified as a part of the child rearing practices to promote the dual heritages of their biracial children. Results indicate these mothers form two perspectives in promoting identity development. Self‐concept was viewed as a paramount issue for development. These findings have implications for practitioners.

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Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study

Posted in Articles, Family/Parenting, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive on 2010-03-12 02:28Z by Steven

Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study

Family Science Review
Volume 4, Number 3 (August 1991)
pages 81-92

Z. Lois Bryant, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
University of Missouri, Columbia

Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
University of Missouri, Columbia

This article addressess some previously unexplored factors related to the racial identity and self-concept formation of biracial preschool children of single female parents. Empirically based research literature on this population is limited although numerous authorities have emphasized the importance of self-concept and racial identity to the total development of the preschool child. The self-concepts and racial identity and attiudes of the mothers of these children, as well as the influence of the preschool setting also are addressed.

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Developing identity formation and self-concept in preschool-aged biracial children

Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study

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