{"id":49173,"date":"2016-09-21T21:14:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T21:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49173"},"modified":"2016-09-21T21:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T21:14:38","slug":"lessons-to-my-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49173","title":{"rendered":"Lessons to my child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.7282\/T3GB221X\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Lessons to my child<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<br \/>\nMay 2012<br \/>\n98 pages<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.7282\/T3GB221X\" target=\"_blank\">10.7282\/T3GB221X<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ayanna S. Boyd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Census Bureau, interracial marriages have continued to increase with 8.4 million people in mixed marriages in 2005. With the increasing number of interracial marriages, there has been a surge of multiracial children who do not fit neatly into our society\u2019s longstanding classification system. As research has consistently validated the realm of racial choices that are now available to biracial children, the parent\u2019s role becomes more important to consider (Rockquemore &amp; Brunsma, 2002). This exploratory study was designed to understand how Black\/White interracial parents perceive their children\u2019s identity and how they negotiate identity with their children. Furthermore, the goal of this study is to uncover some of the strategies and lessons they transmit to their biracial children in order to shape their racial identity. This study involved 8 White\/Black interracial couples raising biracial children. The children\u2019s ages ranges from 4 to 24. Each couple was interviewed using an audio recorder, and their information was analyzed qualitatively using the grounded theory approach (Corbin &amp; Strauss, 2008). This study revealed major themes connected to interracial couples and their racial perceptions and strategies for their biracial children. These themes included 1) the importance of humanity over race, 2) supportive families, 3) purposeful and deliberate racial strategies (both proactive and reactive) including open dialogue, dolls, books, events and experiences, 4) society\u2019s Hispanic view of their children, and 5) hair issues with biracial girls. Limitations and recommendations for future research are discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire dissertation <a href=\"https:\/\/rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu\/rutgers-lib\/41181\/PDF\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons to my child Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2012 98 pages DOI: 10.7282\/T3GB221X Ayanna S. Boyd According to the U.S. Census Bureau, interracial marriages have continued to increase with 8.4 million people in mixed marriages in 2005. With the increasing number of interracial marriages, there has been a surge of multiracial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,414,125,8,20],"tags":[25019,25018,2536],"class_list":["post-49173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissertations","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ayanna-boyd","tag-ayanna-s-boyd","tag-rutgers-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49173","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=49173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49174,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49173\/revisions\/49174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}