{"id":57782,"date":"2019-03-15T18:29:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57782"},"modified":"2019-03-15T19:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T19:11:25","slug":"the-borderlands-of-black-mixed-race-womens-identity-navigating-hegemonic-monoraciality-in-a-white-supremacist-heteropatriarchal-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57782","title":{"rendered":"The Borderlands of Black Mixed-race Women&#8217;s Identity: Navigating Hegemonic Monoraciality in a White Supremacist Heteropatriarchal Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10217\/191259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Borderlands of Black Mixed-race Women&#8217;s Identity: Navigating Hegemonic Monoraciality in a White Supremacist Heteropatriarchal Society<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado<br \/>\n2018<br \/>\n144 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corey Rae Evans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This research study examines and deconstructs the identity formation and development of black mixed-race women and highlights the ways in which black mixed-race women have engaged in developing a &#8220;borderlands consciousness&#8221; that fosters a sense of positive identity as they navigate hegemonic monoraciality and white supremacist heteropatriarchy in the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> U.S.<\/a> This qualitative research study analyzes data from three sources: one-on-one interviews; a focus group; and blog posts on the social media platforms Twitter and Facebook that discuss the identity development of black mixed-race women. In this study, grounded theory methodology is used to explore and theorize around the identity development of black mixed-race women and their potential to utilize a &#8220;borderlands consciousness&#8221; to embody a disidentified position in response to the dualistic stance and counterstance positions that reify monoraciality within the social and political context of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midwestern_United_States\">Midwestern<\/a> state of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorado\">Colorado<\/a>. The following themes with incorporated sub-themes emerged from the three aforementioned data sources with an overarching theme of the borderlands: external oppression representative of a stance position; internal responses to oppression representative of a counterstance position; proximity to whiteness representative of both external oppression and internal responses to oppression; and creating a third space towards a position of disidentification.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"https:\/\/mountainscholar.org\/bitstream\/handle\/10217\/191259\/Evans_colostate_0053N_14839.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This research study examines and deconstructs the identity formation and development of black mixed-race women and highlights the ways in which black mixed-race women have engaged in developing a &#8220;borderlands consciousness&#8221; that fosters a sense of positive identity as they navigate hegemonic monoraciality and white supremacist heteropatriarchy in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,125,8,20,25],"tags":[5510,5841,29620,29619,29618,20101],"class_list":["post-57782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissertations","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-state-university","tag-corey-evans","tag-corey-rae-evans","tag-facebook","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57782","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=57782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57788,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57782\/revisions\/57788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}