{"id":20440,"date":"2012-02-07T04:57:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T04:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20440"},"modified":"2012-02-07T05:07:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T05:07:21","slug":"the-color-of-black-professor-explores-racial-identity-in-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20440","title":{"rendered":"The color of Black: Professor explores racial identity in college students"},"content":{"rendered":"

The color of Black: Professor explores racial identity in college students<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Scope: Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education<\/a>
\nStanford University
\n2011-10-10<\/p>\n

Barbara McKenna<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are lots of different ways to be Black and to have a strong Black identity,\u201d says Camille Charles<\/a>. But, she adds, research and social definitions of Black identity don\u2019t generally consider those multi-faceted dimensions.
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\nCharles discussed her research on identity in Black college students on October 3 in a talk titled, \u201cSay it Loud (I\u2019m Black and I\u2019m Proud?): Understanding the Racial Identities of Upwardly Mobile Black College Students<\/a>.\u201d The talk was the first SCOPE Brown Bag Seminar of the 2011-12 year.
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\nCharles, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Center for Africana Studies, says that traditional academic theories on Black identity have changed in the face of shifting demographics and politics. Throughout the 20th century, the one drop rule<\/a> was the measure of race; any person with one drop of Black blood was socially and legally Black. More recently, Black racial identity was generally based on one\u2019s political views. Black individuals were labeled as either assimilationist (for those who valued integration into the larger American society) or nationalist (for those who renounced efforts to integrate with white peers or institutions). \u201cWhen, in fact,\u201d Charles says, \u201cone can hold aspects of both at the same time.\u201d
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\nIronically, she notes, in recent times the one drop rule has been flipped to bring into question the authenticity of mixed-race people identifying as Blacks\u2014a conversation heard often during the 2008 presidential campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But this \u201cunidimensional\u201d definition is out of step with both current demographics and mindsets, she says. According to the 2010 Census, 10 percent of the Black U.S. population was immigrant and there was an increase as well in those identifying as mixed-race Black. \u201cTwo fields of study challenge the traditional unidimensional definition of Black identity: studies of multiraciality and of Black ethnic identity,\u201d Charles says. These changes have helped broaden definitions of identity somewhat, but both academic and lay depictions of black identity continue to apply outdated unidimensional definitions of black identity…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.\u00a0 View the slideshow presentation here<\/a>. View\u00a0the video of the lecture here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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