{"id":8950,"date":"2010-09-15T21:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2010-09-15T21:42:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T21:42:01","slug":"the-impact-of-the-media-on-biracial-identity-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8950","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metadc5185\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of North Texas<br \/>\nDecember 2007<br \/>\n93 pages<br \/>\nOCLC: 227035319 |\u00a0<br \/>\nARK: ark:\/67531\/metadc5185<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alicia Edison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Science<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biracial individuals undergo a developmental process that is different than monoracial individuals. Not only do they have to develop a strong and cohesive self-esteem, but also develop a strong and cohesive racial identity to have a healthy self-concept. The media is a social structure that has infiltrated into many aspects of American lives, including their racial identity. The media perpetuates current beliefs concerning race and racial identity. This research investigates how biracial identity has been portrayed in the media. Historically, biracial individuals have been portrayed as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\">tragic \u201cmulatto\u201d<\/a> because of their confused racial background. In addition, mulatto women have been stereotyped as exotic and sexual objects. A content analysis was used to investigate how the media presents biracial identity. Only movies with black\/white biracial individuals were watched. The categories under study included perceived race, character\u2019s race, skin color, likeability, sex appeal, ability to contribute, ability to be violent, mental health, overall positive portrayal social, and negative portrayal score. This study may suggest that the media is making attempts to rectify old stereotypes. Overall, this study does demonstrate that the media portrays biracial and black characters differently in film. One overarching theme from these results implies that the perception of race is more salient than one\u2019s actual race.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LIST OF TABLES<\/li>\n<li>INTRODUCTION<\/li>\n<li>LITERATURE REVIEW\n<ul>\n<li>Race<\/li>\n<li>History of Race Relations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">One-Drop Rule<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Importance of Racial Identity<\/li>\n<li>Census<\/li>\n<li>Choosing a Race<\/li>\n<li>Identity Models<\/li>\n<li>Factors in Biracial Identity Construction<\/li>\n<li>Family<\/li>\n<li>Other Factors<\/li>\n<li>Identity Issues Facing Biracial Individuals<\/li>\n<li>Well-Being<\/li>\n<li>Media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>THEORY<\/li>\n<li>HYPOTHESES<\/li>\n<li>PROCEDURE\n<ul>\n<li>Interrater Reliability Score<\/li>\n<li>Data Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Results and Discussion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>LIMITATIONS<\/li>\n<li>CONCLUSIONS<\/li>\n<li>Appendices\n<ul>\n<li>A. EVALUATION FORM<\/li>\n<li>B. INTERRATOR RELIABILITY SCORES<\/li>\n<li>C. LIST OF ACTOR\/ACTRESSES AND MOVIES<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>REFERENCES<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>List of Tables<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Percentage Distribution of Roles Played by Skin Color and Gender<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviations, and One-Way Analyses of Variance (ANOVAs) for Effects of Overall Positive Portrayal Score on Character\u2019s Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviations, and One-Way Analyses of Variance (ANOVAs) for Effects of Overall Positive Portrayal Score on Perceived Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviations, and One-Way Analyses of Variance (ANOVAs) for Effects of Overall Negative Portrayal Score on Character\u2019s Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviations, and One-Way Analyses of Variance (ANOVAs) for Effects of Overall Negative Portrayal Score on Perceived Race<\/li>\n<li>Percentage Distribution of Roles Played by Women and Skin Color<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviations, and One-Way Analyses of Variance (ANOVAs) for Effects of Attractiveness by Character\u2019s Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviations, and One-Way Analyses of Variance (ANOVAs) for Effects of Attractiveness by Perceived Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviations, and One-Way Analyses of Variance (ANOVAs) for Effects of Ability to Contribute by Character\u2019s Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviations, and One-Way Analyses of Variance (ANOVAs) for Effects of Ability to Contribute by Perceived Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviation, and One-Way Analyses of Variance (ANOVAs) for Effect of Likeability by Character\u2019s Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviation, and t-Test for Equality for Means for Effect of Likeability by Perceived Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviation, and One-Way Analyses of Variance (ANOVAs) for Effect of Ability to be Violent by Character\u2019s Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviation, and t-Test for Equality of Means for Effect of Ability to be Violent by Perceived Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviation, and t-Test for Equality of Means for Effect of Skin Color by Character\u2019s Race<\/li>\n<li>Means, Standard Deviation, and t-Test for Equality of Means for Effect of Skin Color by Perceived Race<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.unt.edu\/ark:\/67531\/metadc5185\/m1\/1\/high_res_d\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation University of North Texas December 2007 93 pages OCLC: 227035319 |\u00a0 ARK: ark:\/67531\/metadc5185 Alicia Edison Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Master of Science Biracial individuals undergo a developmental process that is different than monoracial individuals. Not only do they have to develop a strong 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":[24,838,125,8],"tags":[3835,3836],"class_list":["post-8950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-dissertations","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-alicia-edison","tag-university-of-north-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950","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=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}