{"id":5972,"date":"2010-03-13T17:25:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T17:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2013-03-07T23:52:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T23:52:26","slug":"building-kinship-and-community-relational-processes-of-bicultural-identity-among-adult-multiracial-adoptees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5972","title":{"rendered":"Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x\" target=\"_blank\">Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/117959054\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Family Process<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/journal\/123280374\/issue\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 49, Issue 1<\/a> (March 2010)<br \/>\npages 26-42<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ssascholars.uchicago.edu\/g-samuels\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gina Miranda Samuels<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor<br \/>\nSchool of Social Service Administration<br \/>\n<em>University of Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This study uses the case of transracially adopted multiracial adults to highlight an alternative family context and thus process of African American enculturation. Interpretive analyses of interviews with 25 adult multiracial adoptees produced 4 patterns in their bicultural identity formation: (1) claiming whiteness culturally but not racially, (2) learning to \u201cbe Black\u201d\u2014peers as agents of enculturation, (3) biological pathways to authentic Black kinship, and (4) bicultural kinship beyond Black and White. Conceptualizing race as an ascribed extended kinship network and using notions of \u201cgroundedness\u201d from bicultural identity literature, the relational aspects of participants&#8217; identity development are highlighted. Culturally relevant concepts of bicultural identity are proposed for practice with multiracial adoptees who have multiple cultures of origin and for whom White mainstream culture is transmitted intrafamilially as a first culture.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/cgi-bin\/fulltext\/123280376\/PDFSTART\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees Family Process Volume 49, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 26-42 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago This study uses the case of transracially adopted multiracial adults to highlight an alternative family context and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,8,20],"tags":[687,2462,4271,1029,4272],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adoption","tag-family-process","tag-gina-m-samuels","tag-gina-miranda-samuels","tag-gina-samuels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","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=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}