{"id":63383,"date":"2022-03-11T04:42:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T04:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63383"},"modified":"2022-03-17T20:27:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:27:16","slug":"shes-biracial-but-shes-still-black-reflections-from-monoracial-african-american-parents-raising-biracial-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63383","title":{"rendered":"She\u2019s Biracial, but She\u2019s Still Black: Reflections from Monoracial African American Parents Raising Biracial Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

She\u2019s Biracial, but She\u2019s Still Black: Reflections from Monoracial African American Parents Raising Biracial Children<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Journal of Child and Family Studies<\/a>
\nVolume 31, Issue 3 (March 2022) (Special Issue on Multiracial Families)<\/a>
\nPublished online 2022-02-22
\npages 675\u2013684
\nDOI: 10.1007\/s10826-022-02263-8<\/a><\/p>\n

Yolanda T. Mitchell<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science
\nUniversity of North Texas, Denton, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n

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In this commentary, a scholar of Black families blends observations that emanate from her research with those arising within personal experiences. Applying a multicrit<\/a> lens, she seeks to reflect on the experiences of monoracial parents in joint biological stepfamilies, raising biracial children. Her work draws upon heuristic analysis of African American parents raising biracial children in concert with monoracial Black children. Multicrit tenets of experiential knowledge, challenge to dominant ideology, racism, monoracism, and colorism<\/a>, a monoracial paradigm of race, and intersections of multiple racial identities are applied to contextual environmental factors of socialization including racial profiling, parents\u2019 perception of their mixed-race child\u2019s personality and skin tone, and parental orientations toward mixed-race versus monoracial children. This study highlights relevant aspects in the development of mixed-race children including how they are perceived and how they encounter the world around them in an effort to help monoracial parents limit racial polarization and increase an understanding of multiple intersectional identities.<\/p>\n

Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n