{"id":368,"date":"2009-08-19T20:05:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T20:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=368"},"modified":"2012-12-23T23:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T23:18:47","slug":"the-best-of-both-worlds-family-influences-on-mixed-race-youth-identity-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"The Best of Both Worlds? Family Influences on Mixed Race Youth Identity Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1473325007086417\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Best of Both Worlds? Family Influences on Mixed Race Youth Identity Development<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qsw.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Qualitative Social Work<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/qsw.sagepub.com\/content\/7\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 7, Number 1<\/a> (March 2008)<br \/>\npages 81-98<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1473325007086417\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1473325007086417<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:scrawford@halton-multicultural.org\">Susan E. Crawford<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Halton Multicultural Council, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialwork.utoronto.ca\/faculty\/bios\/alaggia.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ramona Alaggia<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>University of Toronto, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This study explored influences on racial identity of mixed race youth who identified themselves to be part of mixed African (Black) and European (White) origin. Research questions emerged following a review of the literature identifying the ways in which views of self, family, peers and society impact youth and their racial identification. Eight in-depth interviews employing the Long Interview Method were conducted, transcribed and coded to determine themes. <strong>Family influences emerged as playing a significant role in biracial identity formation.<\/strong> Three major themes were identified: (1) level of parental awareness and understanding of race issues; (2) impact of family structure; and<strong> (3) communication and willingness to talk about race issues. <\/strong>Implications for researchers and social work practitioners working with this population are discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/qsw.sagepub.com\/content\/7\/1\/81.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Best of Both Worlds? Family Influences on Mixed Race Youth Identity Development Qualitative Social Work Volume 7, Number 1 (March 2008) pages 81-98 DOI: 10.1177\/1473325007086417 Susan E. Crawford Halton Multicultural Council, Canada Ramona Alaggia University of Toronto, Canada This study explored influences on racial identity of mixed race youth who identified themselves to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,8],"tags":[416,418,5100,417],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-qualitative-social-work","tag-ramona-alaggia","tag-susan-crawford","tag-susan-e-crawford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","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=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}