{"id":45317,"date":"2016-01-23T21:33:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T21:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45317"},"modified":"2016-01-23T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T21:33:23","slug":"between-black-and-white-exploring-the-biracial-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45317","title":{"rendered":"Between black and white Exploring the \u201cBiracial\u201d Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/S1090-9524(99)80044-8\" target=\"_blank\">Between black and white Exploring the \u201cBiracial\u201d Experience<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/10909524\" target=\"_blank\">Race and Society<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/10909524\/1\/2\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 1, Issue 2, 1998<\/a><br \/>\npages 197\u2013212<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/S1090-9524(99)80044-8\" target=\"_blank\">10.1016\/S1090-9524(99)80044-8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kerry A. Rockquemore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Public debate surrounding the 2000 Census has focused on the addition of a multi-racial category. Advocates of this change assume that persons of mixed-race parentage identify as \u201cbiracial\u201d or \u201cmixed\u201d and will continue to do so if given the opportunity on government documents. The assumption that most individuals with one Black and one White parent identify as biracial implies that \u201cbiracial\u201d identity has a singular meaning. This paper challenges that assumption by asking two questions: (1) what does \u201cbiracial\u201d mean to individuals within this population and (2) what social factors may lead to differences in the way these individuals interpret their racial identity. Data from in-depth interviews is used to draw a descriptive map of the multiple ways individuals understand and respond to their biracial-ness. A conceptual model is presented which explores how physical appearance and socio-economic status affect access to different types of social networks and the way that race is socially constructed and experienced within those networks.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1090952499800448\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between black and white Exploring the \u201cBiracial\u201d Experience Race and Society Volume 1, Issue 2, 1998 pages 197\u2013212 DOI: 10.1016\/S1090-9524(99)80044-8 Kerry A. Rockquemore Public debate surrounding the 2000 Census has focused on the addition of a multi-racial category. Advocates of this change assume that persons of mixed-race parentage identify as \u201cbiracial\u201d or \u201cmixed\u201d and will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,20],"tags":[22770,106,16123,3846],"class_list":["post-45317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-kerry-a-rockquemore","tag-kerry-ann-rockquemore","tag-kerry-rockquemore","tag-race-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317","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=45317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45318,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45317\/revisions\/45318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}