{"id":4547,"date":"2010-01-17T00:51:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T00:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4547"},"modified":"2010-01-17T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T02:29:10","slug":"deconstructing-race-biracial-adolescents%e2%80%99-fluid-racial-self-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4547","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing Race: Biracial Adolescents\u2019 Fluid Racial Self-labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/community.ncfr.org\/ncfr08\/311-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Deconstructing Race: Biracial Adolescents\u2019 Fluid Racial Self-labels<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2008-12-01<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncg.edu\/csr\/staff\/arollins.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alethea Rollins<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Greensboro<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncg.edu\/hdf\/facultystaff\/Hunter\/Hunter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea G. Hunter<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Greensboro<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biracial people shatter the idea of effortless categorization of race, identity, and group membership. Multirace membership forces scholars to examine what race is, how they use it, and what it tells them about people. Lopez (1994) defined race as, \u201cneither an essence nor an illusion, but rather an ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to the macro forces of social and political struggle and the micro effects of daily decisions\u201d (p. 42). Studies of biracial people require that we explore the boundaries, intersections, and fluidity of race and challenge us to deconstruct race as a social construct.<\/p>\n<p>The aims of this investigation are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explore similarities and differences in adolescent racial self-labels reported by parents and adolescents<\/li>\n<li>Illustrate fluidity and change in adolescent racial self-labels over time<\/li>\n<li>Examine method variance in adolescents\u2019 selection of racial self-labels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the poster summary <a href=\"http:\/\/community.ncfr.org\/ncfr08\/311-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deconstructing Race: Biracial Adolescents\u2019 Fluid Racial Self-labels 2008-12-01 Alethea Rollins University of North Carolina, Greensboro Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies University of North Carolina, Greensboro Biracial people shatter the idea of effortless categorization of race, identity, and group membership. Multirace membership forces scholars to examine what race is, how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,125,8,681,23,20],"tags":[1814,1815,1822,1824,1825],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-reports","category-teaching","category-usa","tag-alethea-rollins","tag-andrea-g-hunter","tag-andrea-hunter","tag-madics","tag-maryland-adolescent-development-in-context-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547","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=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}