{"id":5904,"date":"2010-03-11T23:24:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2014-10-27T17:24:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T17:24:46","slug":"biracial-females-reflections-on-racial-identity-development-in-adolescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5904","title":{"rendered":"Biracial Females&#8217; Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1300\/J086v18n04_03\" target=\"_blank\">Biracial Females&#8217; Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=t792304002\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Feminist Family Therapy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=g902200393\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 18, Issue 4<\/a> (February 2007)<br \/>\npages 53 &#8211; 75<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1300\/J086v18n04_03\" target=\"_blank\">10.1300\/J086v18n04_03<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Karia Kelch-Oliver<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of Counseling and Psychological Services<br \/>\n<em>Georgia State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sph.umd.edu\/fmsc\/people\/fac\/lleslie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leigh A. Leslie<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor and Graduate Director<br \/>\nDepartment of Family Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the number of biracial youth grows, understanding their experience becomes increasingly important. A qualitative study was conducted to learn about the experience of racial identity development in biracial adolescent females. Nine Black-White biracial college-age women participated in focus groups, reflecting on their adolescence. Results indicated the most prevalent experience was a feeling of being marginal between two cultures. Further, competing messages over standards of beauty in the two cultures complicated the normal identity struggle of adolescence. Implications for parents and practitioners include recognizing the unique issues biracial girls experience and how race and gender combine to affect their identity development.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/ftinterface~content=a914117010~fulltext=713240930\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biracial Females&#8217; Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence Journal of Feminist Family Therapy Volume 18, Issue 4 (February 2007) pages 53 &#8211; 75 DOI: 10.1300\/J086v18n04_03 Karia Kelch-Oliver Department of Counseling and Psychological Services Georgia State University Leigh A. Leslie, Associate Professor and Graduate Director Department of Family Studies University of Maryland As the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,25],"tags":[2444,2447,2446,2448],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-journal-of-feminist-family-therapy","tag-karia-kelch-oliver","tag-leigh-a-leslie","tag-leigh-leslie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","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=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}