{"id":5017,"date":"2010-02-06T01:08:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T01:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2010-08-09T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T17:39:30","slug":"sociohistorical-constructions-of-race-and-language-impacting-biracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5017","title":{"rendered":"Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/diversity.umsl.edu\/documents\/sociohistorical_constructions_of_race.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A chapter in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwood.com\/catalog\/C8234.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination<\/a><\/em>. By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelphi.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/profile.php?PID=0398\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Lau Chin<\/a>\u00a0(Editor). (Santa Barbara, California. Praeger Publishers, 2004. 1,000 pages. ISBN: 0-275-98234-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98234-8)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umsl.edu\/divisions\/artscience\/psychology\/faculty\/taylor_matt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew J. Taylor<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Missouri, St. Louis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Historically, race has been constructed within the American psyche as a dichotomous variable&#8211;and either-or proposition.\u00a0 Moreover, our construction and use of language have developed to mirror the is reality, which ultimately aids in its perception.\u00a0 Has this divergent approach to race outlived its usefulness and applicability?\u00a0 Is it realistic, given the face of today&#8217;s changing demographic landscape?\u00a0 At present, there remain cultural and linguistic disconnects between the phenomenological experience of the biracial individual and the expectations of the dualistic society within whichthey reside.\u00a0 On the individual level, there are implications for psychosocial development (Hall, 2001; Root, 1995).\u00a0 More broadly speaking, what will develop from the resolution of the dilemma is a new paradigm impacting how the citizens of this country view race and racial identity.\u00a0 This paper explores the impact that the sociohistorical constructions to race and language have on the lives of biracial individuals.\u00a0 To this end, the author, who is biracial, will blend sociohistorical conceptions of race and linguistic philosophy with personal narrative components and conclude with implications for multiracial identity development&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire chapter <a href=\"http:\/\/diversity.umsl.edu\/documents\/sociohistorical_constructions_of_race.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociohistorical Constructions of Race and Language: Impacting Biracial Identity A chapter in The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination. By Jean Lau Chin\u00a0(Editor). (Santa Barbara, California. Praeger Publishers, 2004. 1,000 pages. ISBN: 0-275-98234-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98234-8) Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis Historically, race has been constructed within the American psyche [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1933,459,125,8,394],"tags":[2022,2021,3106],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-bookchapter","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-jean-lau-chin","tag-matthew-j-taylor","tag-matthew-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","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=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}