{"id":6564,"date":"2010-04-11T22:57:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T22:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6564"},"modified":"2010-04-11T22:57:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T22:57:47","slug":"identity-problems-in-biracial-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6564","title":{"rendered":"Identity problems in biracial youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cehd.umn.edu\/EdPa\/licensure\/leader\/2004Fall\/identity.html\" target=\"_blank\">Identity problems in biracial youth<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cehd.umn.edu\/EdPa\/licensure\/leader\" target=\"_blank\">The Leader<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Minnesota College of Education &amp; Human Development<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cehd.umn.edu\/EdPa\/licensure\/leader\/2004Fall\" target=\"_blank\">Fall 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"Charlotte.Nitardy@metrostate.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Charlote M. Nitardy<\/a><\/strong>, Early Childhood Assessment Program Coordinator<br \/>\n<em>Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While there is little data on the number of biracial children in the US, there is a consensus among demographers that we are experiencing a \u201cbiracial baby boom.\u201d According to the 1990 U.S. Census, there were approximately 800,000 interracial families with about one million biracial children in the country (Herring, 1995). Biracial youth have a very unique problem that most of their peers never experience: racial identity. These biracial youth have difficulties identifying who they are in our society.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, children of mixed parentage were identified with the parent of color; if one parent was black, then the child was considered black. While such simplification may have been adequate in the past, studies are showing that more and more biracial children in today\u2019s society are experiencing identity problems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cehd.umn.edu\/EdPa\/licensure\/leader\/2004Fall\/identity.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity problems in biracial youth The Leader University of Minnesota College of Education &amp; Human Development Fall 2004 Charlote M. Nitardy, Early Childhood Assessment Program Coordinator Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota While there is little data on the number of biracial children in the US, there is a consensus among demographers that we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,23,20],"tags":[2742,2743,2741],"class_list":["post-6564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-teaching","category-usa","tag-charlote-m-nitardy","tag-charlote-nitardy","tag-the-leader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564","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=6564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}