{"id":1275,"date":"2009-10-01T01:21:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T01:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2012-02-19T21:34:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T21:34:51","slug":"the-formation-of-multiracial-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"The Formation of Multiracial Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p242185_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Formation of Multiracial Identities<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,<br \/>\nSheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place<br \/>\nBoston, MA<br \/>\n2008-07-31<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rufair.rutgers.edu\/bios.php\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Bedley<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Rutgers University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since the 1970s, research on the multiracial population has been largely theoretically driven without substantial empirical investigation into how mixed-race people form a multiracial identity. <strong>This project articulates the historical, political, and cultural contexts that multiracial people experience living in the United States in order to build a foundation for exploring the particular social and cultural factors that influence multiracial identity development in mixed-race persons.<\/strong> In addition, this project bridges the psychological and sociological literatures on the multiracial population through its discussion of social\/ecological influences on identity and identity theory.\u00a0 The author will conduct in-depth interviews (starting this spring) with 30-50 mixed-race respondents to better understand not only the multiracial identity formation process, but also to grasp the ways in which Hispanic\/Latino identities complicate the formation of a multiracial identity, as well as exploring how context influences the expression of this identity.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p242185_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Formation of Multiracial Identities Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place Boston, MA 2008-07-31 Crystal Bedley Rutgers University Since the 1970s, research on the multiracial population has been largely theoretically driven without substantial empirical investigation into how mixed-race people form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,14,20],"tags":[466,467],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identitydevelopment","category-papers","category-usa","tag-crystal-bedley","tag-hispaniclatino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}