{"id":7431,"date":"2010-05-30T00:26:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T00:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7431"},"modified":"2010-05-30T00:44:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T00:44:34","slug":"the-negotiation-of-identities-narratives-of-mixed-race-individuals-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7431","title":{"rendered":"The Negotiation of Identities: Narratives of Mixed-Race Individuals in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Negotiation of Identities: Narratives of Mixed-Race Individuals in Canada<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ontario lnstitute for Studies in Education
\nUniversity of Toronto
\n2001
\n170 Pages<\/p>\n

M\u00e9lanie Jane Knight
\n<\/strong>University of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n

A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This thesis examines how mixed-race individuals shape and negotiate their identities and where they situate themselves along the racial continuum. I share the stories of five individuals of African\/Caribbean\/Lebanese and French-Canadian descent. This study is distinct tn that it examines participants’ negotiation of two White racially dominant groups, the Anglophone<\/a> majority and Francophone<\/a> linguistic minority who themselves differ in social and economic status. It was found that participants’ self-identification as individuals of colour was not an indicator of their participation within subordinate groups. Participants chose to situate themselves at different locations on the racial continuum, either participating within Whiteness, Blackness or both.<\/strong> Negotiations within certain locations on the continuum was found to bring benefits, depend to some extent on phenotype, cause tension and contradiction, to be influenced by racism and racial consciousness and to be complicated by language and ethnicity.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract
\nAcknowledgements
\nIntroduction<\/p>\n

Chapter One: Understanding the Mixed-Race Individual
\nMiscegenation
\nEarly Considerations of Mixed-Race Individuals
\nEarlier Studies: Psychological Models
\nLimitations of the Models
\nEcological Models
\nSociological Studies
\nLater Studies Looking at Sociological Issues
\nNegotiation of Identity
\nNegotiations of Race, Culture, Language and Identity
\nFrench-Canadians and Historical Contexts<\/p>\n

Chapter Two: Researching the Performance of Mixed-Race Identity
\nIdentity
\nTheorizing Racism
\nUnderstanding Everyday Racism
\nThe Structure of Everyday Racism
\nMethodology-Research Design
\nQualitative Research
\nCriteria for Inclusion
\nMethods of Collecting the Data
\nEthical Concerns
\nNarratives
\nStructure of Narratives
\n\u201cMinorizing\u201d the Majority Language
\nStructure of Results and Discussion
\nResearch Questions<\/p>\n

Chapter Three: My Story\/Ma journ\u00e9e<\/p>\n

Chapter Four: Participating Within and Negotiating Whiteness
\nLyanne\u2019s Story
\nKaren\u2019s Story
\nAnn\u2019s Story<\/p>\n

Chapter Five: Hybridity and Performing \u201cBlackness\u201d
\nMartin\u2019s Story
\nChantal\u2019s Story<\/p>\n

Conclusion
\nReferences<\/p>\n

…I\u00a0argue that mixed-race individuals\u2019 self-identification as persons of colour may not coincide with where they participate along the racial continuum. Since non-White individuals have little option as to how to self-identify, they often self-identify as people of colour. This choice, however, may be hollow. For example, choosing to self-identify as Black may not have a great deaf of content to it since individuals may have never lived in Black communities or learned much of Black cultural life. There is then a gap between the self-identification as Black for instance and reality, that being the participation in White spaces. The reality maybe in a sense where mixed-race individuals feel comfort. These spaces of comfort may require them to perform an identity.\u00a0 I\u00a0contend that the performance of an identity is accomplished through language and examined in how individuals articulate and express themselves.\u00a0 I also contend that a performance can be undertaken to prove one\u2019s allegiance to a group\/community. There are other dimensions to the performance and negotiation of identities but\u00a0I focus on how the study participants articulate themselves…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the entire thesis here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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