{"id":38047,"date":"2014-11-01T21:40:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T21:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38047"},"modified":"2014-11-01T22:55:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T22:55:40","slug":"growing-up-on-burritos-and-black-eyed-peas-an-autoethnography-of-multiracial-identity-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38047","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up On Burritos and Black-Eyed Peas: An Autoethnography of Multiracial Identity Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing Up On Burritos and Black-Eyed Peas: An Autoethnography of Multiracial Identity Development<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Georgia State University
\n2014-05-16
\n210 pages<\/p>\n

Marie Castro Bruner<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Teaching and Learning in the Department of Middle-Secondary Education in the College of Education Georgia State University<\/em><\/p>\n

The immigration debate is not new to the United States; however, today\u2019s heated discussions include strong anti-Mexican sentiments (Bean & Stone, 2012; Hughey, 2012). As Americans attempt to secure borders in an effort to insure safety and economic security, current legislation includes elements of racial profiling against Mexicans that could extend to those who possess varying levels of Mexican blood since physical characteristics tend to guide racial labeling (Aoki & Johnson, 2009; Bernal, 2002; Fernandez, 2002; Qui\u00f1ones et al, 2011). As an individual of Mexican and White bloodlines, racial categorization has resulted in internal struggles and social dilemmas for me.<\/p>\n

The purpose of this dissertation was to gain understanding of my personal\u00a0multiracial identity development within various social contexts; this study fulfills the\u00a0requests of theorists seeking to understand multiracial identity development through self-analysis over a lifetime (Binning et al, 2009; Charmaraman & Grossman, 2010; Cheng &\u00a0Lee, 2009; Miville et al, 2005). This qualitative dissertation used critical autoethnography<\/a>\u00a0as its methodology and theories of multiracial identity (Poston, 1990; Root, 1996;\u00a0Rockquemore, Brunsma, & Delgado, 2009) and LatCrit (Aoki & Johnson, 2008;\u00a0Sol\u00f3rzano & Bernal, 2001; Tate, 1997; Valdes, 1997; Villalpando, 2004; Yosso, 2005)\u00a0while considering the impact of Whiteness Studies<\/a> (Jay, 2005; Jeffries, 2012; Yeung,\u00a0Spanierman\u00a0& Landrum-Brown, 2013), and the cultural process of naming (Boris, 2005).\u00a0The research questions guiding this dissertation were: How have I internalized and\u00a0interpreted encounters related to racial identification, and what does being multiracial\u00a0mean to me?<\/p>\n

The presentation of findings included narrative analysis of visual and audio data\u00a0sets located on a personal website that accompanies this study; online presentation of this\u00a0study provides an opportunity to explore multiracial identity development in a\u00a0space that\u00a0has potential for impacting change due to popularity and accessibility (Bamford, 2005;\u00a0Lang, 2002; Lange, 2008). Findings revealed complexities and fluidity in multiracial\u00a0identity development as well as problems of self-identifying as monoracial. The\u00a0significance of this study is that it will contribute to ongoing discussions of\u00a0multiracial\u00a0identity development as well as add to the growing body of literature related to LatCrit\u00a0Theory, Whiteness Studies, and autoethnographic studies.<\/p>\n

Read the entire dissertation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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