The interracial experience : growing up black/white racially mixed in the United States / Ursual M. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Ursula M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--United States.

Multiracial people.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The number of black-white mixed marriages increased by 504% in the last 25 years. By offering relevant demographic, research, and sociocultural data as well as a series of intensely personal and revealing vignettes, Dr. Brown investigates how mixed race people cope in a world that has shoehorned them into a racial category that denies half of their physiological and psychological existence. She also addresses their struggle for acceptance in the black and white world and the racist abuses many of them have suffered.Brown interweaves research findings with interviews of children of black-white interracial unions to highlight certain psychosocial phenomenon or experiences. She looks at the history of interracial marriages in the United States and discusses the scientific and social theories that underlie the racial bigotry suffered by mixed people. Questions of racial identity, conflict, and self-esteem are treated as are issues of mental health. An important look at contemporary mixed race issues that will be of particular interest to scholars, researchers, students, and professionals dealing with race, family, and mental health concerns.

Contents:

Cover

THE INTERRACIAL EXPERIENCE

Contents

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Three Interracial People

THE YEAR 2000

MATTHEW: TOWARD A BLACK IDENTITY

SIDNEY: TRYING TO FIT IN

CLAUDETTE: OUT OF THE CLOSET

A CLOSER LOOK AT THREE LIVES

RACIAL IDENTITY IN PERSPECTIVE

NOTES

CHAPTER 2 An Orientation of the Study

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: MULATTOS DURING SLAVERY AND BEYOND

Society at Large

Mental Health Community

WHO IS THE RESEARCHER? WHO ARE THE PEOPLE TO BE STUDIED AND WHAT ARE THE METHODS?

Researcher

Methodology

Limitation of Study

CHAPTER 3 Racism

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF COLOR

IMPACT OF RACISM ON BLACKS

RACISM AGAINST INTERRACIAL PEOPLE

THE NATURE OF RACISM

CHAPTER 4 Racial Identity, Conflict, and Self-esteem

RACIAL IDENTITY

Identity Variations

Public versus Private Identities

Primary and Secondary Identities

Identity Fluctuations

CONFLICT

Resolution of the Identity Question

SELF-ESTEEM

TREATMENT OF RACIAL IDENTITY ISSUES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

CHAPTER 5 When the Clothes Don't Fit

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

PASSING AS WHITE-OR AS BLACK

GENDER

NOTE

CHAPTER 6 The Family

MARRIAGE OUTSIDE THE COLOR LINE

FAMILY STRUCTURE

GETTING TOGETHER

Acceptance

EXPOSURE TO CULTURE

RACIAL LABELING

CHAPTER 7 Places to Live and Learn

COMMUNITIES

White Community: Out of Place

Black Community: Being Too White

The Racially Integrated Community: Acceptance

SCHOOLS

White Schools

Black Schools

Racially Integrated Schools

COLLEGE

WORKING

CHAPTER 8 Love and Color

SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS

ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE DYNAMICS OF CROSS-RACIAL ATTRACTION

INTERRACIAL PEOPLE IN THE PURSUIT OF LOVE

White Partners

Black Partners

CHAPTER 9 Being Well

RESILIENCE.

PROVIDING A HEALTHY FAMILY ENVIRONMENT

MENTAL HEALTH

SOCIETY

APPENDIX A Demographic Characteristics of the Study Participants and Their Parents

APPENDIX B Pathdiagram of Multivaried Relationships of Racial Identity, Conflict, and Self-esteem

APPENDIX C National Interracial Support/Advocacy Groups

ARKANSAS

CALIFORNIA

COLORADO

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

FLORIDA

GEORGIA

ILLINOIS

KENTUCKY

MARYLAND

MASSACHUSETTS

MICHIGAN

MISSOURI

NEW JERSEY

NEW YORK

OHIO

OREGON

PENNSYLVANIA

TEXAS

VERMONT

WASHINGTON

References

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-147) and index.

ISBN:

9798400671791

9780313000331

0313000336

OCLC:

55002830