{"id":3229,"date":"2013-02-14T00:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T00:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2017-05-28T15:29:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T15:29:02","slug":"the-unique-challenges-of-interracial-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3229","title":{"rendered":"Interracial families face unique challenges because of the historical legacy of white supremacy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Interracial families face unique challenges because of the historical legacy of white supremacy, the long-standing social barriers against interracial marriage, and the cultural norm of racial homogeneity in marriage patterns.\u00a0 For interracial families, racial socialization is complicated for important several reasons.\u00a0 First, parents bring different racial identities, experiences, and ideologies to their relationship that may result in different ideas about how to racially socialize their children.\u00a0 In addition, the politics of race in our society are such that their mixed-race children exist in a marginal and undefined space.\u00a0 There is no clear community of mixed-race people or a comprehensive understanding of the mixed-race experience that can be used to guide racial socialization of mixed-race childrenin a positive, cohesive manner.\u00a0 Unlike white or black children, most multiracial children do not have a parent with whom they can directly identify as a multiracial person.\u00a0 Unless a parent is also mixed-race, the majority of mixed-race children learn about race from on or more adults who cannot completely understand their racial reality.\u00a0 This means that most mixed-race children rarely have the luxury of being raised by a parent whose on racial identity and socialization process are relevant to their experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rockquemore, Kerry Ann, Tracey Laszloffy, Julia Noveske. \u201cIt All Starts at Home: Racial Socialization in Multiracial Families\u201d, In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the \u201cColor-Blind\u201d Era<\/a><\/em>, edited by David L. Brunsma, 207.\u00a0 Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interracial families face unique challenges because of the historical legacy of white supremacy, the long-standing social barriers against interracial marriage, and the cultural norm of racial homogeneity in marriage patterns.\u00a0 For interracial families, racial socialization is complicated for important several reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[317,106,307,316],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-julia-noveske","tag-kerry-ann-rockquemore","tag-lynne-rienner-publishers","tag-tracey-laszloffy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","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=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54011,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/54011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}