{"id":4227,"date":"2010-01-01T02:07:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T02:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2010-01-01T02:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T02:12:05","slug":"phillip-handy-examines-how-children-form-racial-identities-in-multiracial-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4227","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Handy examines how children form racial identities in multiracial families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.rutgers.edu\/medrel\/research\/aresty-20090416\/phillip-handy-examin-20090416\/medrel_research_highlight_subpage_view\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip Handy examines how children form racial identities in multiracial families<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research Highlights<br \/>\nRutgers University<br \/>\n2009-04-22<\/p>\n<p>The election of America\u2019s first mixed-race president has created new interest in what it\u2019s like to grow up as a multiracial child. A Rutgers senior majoring in sociology and psychology has already received input from about 930 multiracial people from across the country to help provide some answers.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Handy, who grew up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howell_Township,_New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\">Howell<\/a> and has a white mother and an African-American father, was actually pondering the phenomenon before the presidential campaign ever began. In 2006, he helped form an organization called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=5571562601\" target=\"_blank\">Fusion, the Rutgers Union of Mixed People<\/a>, aimed at uniting people who identify with, or are interested in, the multiracial experience. A year ago, Handy was included in a New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/31\/us\/politics\/31race.html\" target=\"_blank\">article and video<\/a> about mixed race.<\/p>\n<p>Handy\u2019s early interest in the field has now blossomed into academic research, which he will discuss in a panel presentation at the Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium called <em>Race and Gender in the Family: A Mixed-Race Perspective<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Handy\u2019s work explores how the strength of the relationship between a multiracial child and his or her parent of the same gender impacts racial identity and awareness. <strong>He hypothesizes that the children closer to the same-gender parent will gravitate toward that parent\u2019s characteristics. In addition, he predicts that this effect will be more prominent in families where gender roles are more clearly defined&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/news.rutgers.edu\/medrel\/research\/aresty-20090416\/phillip-handy-examin-20090416\/medrel_research_highlight_subpage_view\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Handy examines how children form racial identities in multiracial families Research Highlights Rutgers University 2009-04-22 The election of America\u2019s first mixed-race president has created new interest in what it\u2019s like to grow up as a multiracial child. A Rutgers senior majoring in sociology and psychology has already received input from about 930 multiracial people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,6,394,20],"tags":[1677],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-phillip-handy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","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=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}