{"id":38008,"date":"2014-10-29T17:51:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38008"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:51:30","slug":"conceptualizing-and-re-conceptualizing-mixed-race-identity-development-theories-and-canadas-multicultural-framework-in-historical-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38008","title":{"rendered":"Conceptualizing, and Re-conceptualizing, Mixed Race Identity Development Theories and Canada\u2019s Multicultural Framework in Historical Context"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conceptualizing, and Re-conceptualizing, Mixed Race Identity Development Theories and Canada\u2019s Multicultural Framework in Historical Context<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

SFU Educational Review<\/a>
\nVolume 1, Number 1 (2014)
\nISSN: 1916-050X
\n18 pages<\/p>\n

Samantha Fischer<\/strong><\/a>
\nDepartment of Psychology
\nSimon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

“Racism is like a fleet-footed bedbug that runs for cover under a sweet-smelling duvet stuffed with politeness and tolerance for multiculturalism\u201d<\/em> (Hill, 2001, p. 155).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scope of the topic, and paper organization<\/strong><\/p>\n

This paper will examine the most prominent theories of identity development of\u00a0mixed race people in Canada from the\u00a0late\u00a01800s to the present day in the emergent\u00a0multicultural context. It will examine the theories and contexts related to all mixed race\u00a0people rather than focusing on a specific group.<\/p>\n

This paper will commence with a discussion of the relevance of the topic, and an\u00a0overview\u00a0of multiculturalism\u00a0policies in Canada. In the second part of the paper, the\u00a0history of concepts relating to mixed race identity development in\u00a0Canada will be\u00a0analyzed in historical context and,\u00a0when possible, related to the Multiculturalism Policy.\u00a0In the third section of this paper, the current theories of mixed race identity\u00a0development and multiculturalism will be addressed. Finally, the need\u00a0to re-conceptualize race and\/or mixed race identity, and current proposals for re-conceptualization will be outlined. When selecting this topic, it was assumed that\u00a0identity development theories would need to be adapted to suit multiculturalism;\u00a0however,\u00a0it was found that the current theories addressing mixed race individuals were\u00a0comprehensive, and enough empirical and theoretical evidence existed to suggest that\u00a0they meet the needs of mixed race people. Thus, to address the incongruence between\u00a0mixed race identity development models and multiculturalism, the focus will be placed\u00a0on the latter, but a few ideas that are in accord with existing theories on Mixed\u00a0Race\u00a0Identity\u00a0development and the empirical research to address the discrepancies will be\u00a0suggested. Then, a theory of reconceptualization will be argued as the most appropriate,\u00a0and the implications for research, the challenges\/disadvantages, and the remaining\u00a0challenges will be addressed.<\/p>\n

This paper will be somewhat limited in its ability to discuss\u00a0identity theories in an\u00a0exclusively Canadian context, and it cannot accurately reflect the unique situation of the\u00a0Metis peoples of Canada, or other multi-racial First Nations<\/a> Peoples.\u00a0This is not\u00a0because\u00a0this topic is unimportant. However, given the\u00a0remarkably unique socio-cultural position\u00a0of the First Nations Peoples in Canada, while some of the content of this paper may\u00a0apply to multi-racial First Nations Peoples, it is\u00a0beyond the scope of this paper to\u00a0explore\u00a0in a manner that would be both appropriate and comprehensive (this remains a\u00a0critical direction for future work).\u00a0Although the body of work on\u00a0Mixed Race\u00a0identity\u00a0development in a Canadian context is growing, most of the research on this subject has\u00a0largely been done in the United States\u00a0(Taylor, 2008). When possible, exclusively Canadian sources are used, but they are supplemented with American sources\u00a0interpreted for\u00a0a Canadian context. Furthermore, due to space constraints, not every\u00a0development model could be included; however, the most commonly cited, influential\u00a0and representative ones have been added…<\/p>\n

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Conceptualizing, and Re-conceptualizing, Mixed Race Identity Development Theories and Canada\u2019s Multicultural Framework in Historical Context SFU Educational Review Volume 1, Number 1 (2014) ISSN: 1916-050X 18 pages Samantha Fischer Department of Psychology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada “Racism is like a fleet-footed bedbug that runs for cover under a sweet-smelling duvet stuffed with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,125,8,3015],"tags":[18308,18307],"class_list":["post-38008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-samantha-fischer","tag-sfu-educational-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38008","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=38008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}