{"id":15967,"date":"2011-09-01T22:15:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15967"},"modified":"2011-09-01T19:55:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:55:49","slug":"bi-racial-identity-children-born-to-african-american-and-white-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15967","title":{"rendered":"Bi-racial identity: Children born to African-American and white couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/vu83616377886810\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bi-racial identity: Children born to African-American and white couples<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/0091-1674\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clinical Social Work Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/0091-1674\/21\/4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 21, Number 4<\/a> (December 1993)<br \/>\npages 417-428<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1007\/BF00755575<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennesaw.edu\/chhs\/swhs\/Bios\/bowles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dorcas D. Bowles<\/a><\/strong>, Distinguished Professor of Social Work<br \/>\n<em>Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The quest for self-identity has been more complex for African-Americans than for all the groups in American society. This quest has been especially troubling for children where one parent is African-American and the other parent is white. The scholarly literature is replete with themes on black identity and self-esteem, but this literature does not speak to the issue of biraciality since societal attitudes decree that any person with a drop of black blood is black. There is a move afoot by bi-racial (black and white) young adult children to claim both parts of their ethnic heritage. This paper suggests that the issue of bi-racial identity must be revisited and re-examined.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/vu83616377886810\/fulltext.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bi-racial identity: Children born to African-American and white couples Clinical Social Work Journal Volume 21, Number 4 (December 1993) pages 417-428 DOI: 10.1007\/BF00755575 Dorcas D. Bowles, Distinguished Professor of Social Work Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia The quest for self-identity has been more complex for African-Americans than for all the groups in American society. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,4481,20],"tags":[7406,7405,7404],"class_list":["post-15967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-work","category-usa","tag-clinical-social-work-journal","tag-dorcas-bowles","tag-dorcas-d-bowles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967","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=15967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}