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Lessons to my child
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Lessons to my child
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how black/white interracial parents perceive and shape racial Identity in their biracial children
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Boyd
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Ayanna S.
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1984-
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Ayanna Boyd
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Kelly
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Shalonda
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Shalonda Kelly
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Boyd-Franklin
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Nancy Boyd-Franklin
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Advisory Committee
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co-chair
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
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2012
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2012-05
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eng
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, interracial marriages have continued to increase with 8.4 million people in mixed marriages in 2005. With the increasing number of interracial marriages, there has been a surge of multiracial children who do not fit neatly into our society’s longstanding classification system. As research has consistently validated the realm of racial choices that are now available to biracial children, the parent’s role becomes more important to consider (Rockquemore & Brunsma, 2002). This exploratory study was designed to understand how Black/White interracial parents perceive their children’s identity and how they negotiate identity with their children. Furthermore, the goal of this study is to uncover some of the strategies and lessons they transmit to their biracial children in order to shape their racial identity. This study involved 8 White/Black interracial couples raising biracial children. The children’s ages ranges from 4 to 24. Each couple was interviewed using an audio recorder, and their information was analyzed qualitatively using the grounded theory approach (Corbin & Strauss, 2008). This study revealed major themes connected to interracial couples and their racial perceptions and strategies for their biracial children. These themes included 1) the importance of humanity over race, 2) supportive families, 3) purposeful and deliberate racial strategies (both proactive and reactive) including open dialogue, dolls, books, events and experiences, 4) society’s Hispanic view of their children, and 5) hair issues with biracial girls. Limitations and recommendations for future research are discussed.
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School Psychology
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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viii, 98 p. : ill.
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Psy.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Ayanna S. Boyd
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Racially mixed children--United States--Psychology
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Parents of racially mixed children--United States--Psychology
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Blacks--Race identity--United States
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Whites--Race identity--United States
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Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3GB221X
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Boyd
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Ayanna
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2012-06-01 14:18:43
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Ayanna Boyd
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Rutgers University. Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2012-05-31
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2012-11-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after November 30th, 2012.
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