Making the Invisible Visible: The Growth of Community Network Organizations

Brown, Nancy G.; Douglass, Ramona E.

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“…Upon entering college, these students not only began to learn more about their ethnicities in their classes but were also faced with the new experience of having their ethnicities questioned-and denied-by others (Townsend, Markus, & Bergsieker, 2009). Thus, many mixed-ethnic students became aware that they were considered by others as neither White nor a person of color and consequently adopted a "mixed" identity (Brown & Douglass, 1996).…”

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Developing an integrated self: Academic and ethnic identities among ethnically diverse college students.

Syed

2010

Developmental Psychology

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the development of college students' major selection and whether and how this choice is associated with their developing ethnic identities. Ninety ethnically diverse college students were interviewed in their first, sophomore, and senior years. Mixed-method analyses revealed 5 theoretically consistent pathways of how students configured their ethnic identities and majors over time: low awareness, consciousness-raised, high awareness, integrating, and compartmentalized. These pathways were differentially related to students' ethnicities and majors, suggesting that students' identity experiences are moderated by their chosen majors. The results of this study underscore the contribution of a longitudinal, life-span, approach to identity development for understanding the diversity in identity pathways during college. The findings also have implications for practical purposes, particularly for advising, counseling, and curriculum development.

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Developing an integrated self: Academic and ethnic identities among ethnically diverse college students.

Syed

2010

Developmental Psychology

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“…As a result of the growing rate of intermarriages and the rising racial and ethnic diversity emerging from new immigration in the United States, one in five Americans is estimated to identify as multiracial by the year 2050 (Farley, 2001). The growing visibility and the political movement surrounding the creation of a community of multiracial people (i.e., "multiracial movement, " Brown & Douglass, 1996) has forced public recognition of multiracial identity and the needs of multiracial people in the United States. Although the U.S. Census is the most commonly cited example of this recognition when they allowed multiracial people in the United States to indicate more than one racial identity, a surge in academic research and theory around multiracial identity and surrounding political and social issues similarly reflects the movement toward recognizing a multiracial identity.…”

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When Race Becomes Even More Complex: Toward Understanding the Landscape of Multiracial Identity and Experiences

Shih

Sanchez

2009

Journal of Social Issues

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The explosion in the number of people coming from a multiracial heritage has generated an increased need for understanding the experiences and consequences associated with coming from a multiracial background. In addition, the emergence of a multiracial identity challenges current thinking about race, forcing scholars to generate new ideas about intergroup relations, racial stigmatization, social identity, social perception, discrimination, and the intersectionality of race with other social categories such as social class. The present issue brings together research and theory in psychology, sociology, education, culture studies, and public policy surrounding multiracial identity and introduces new advances in thinking about race, intergroup relations, and racial identity. In exploring multiracial identity, the issue will reexamine conceptualization of race and racial identification by examining the social experiences of multiracial individuals.

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“…However, unlike other contemporary census movements, the majority of multiracial activists were not multiracial themselves. Rather, most were partners in interracial relationships that produced mixed-race children, many of them white mothers who started and joined multiracial groups for friendship and support (Brown and Douglass 1996;Puente 1996;). 4 These advocates, who would not be the subject of the new definition, created an identity politics on behalf of their offspring, but with little meaning for those it spoke for.…”

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Who are We? Producing Group Identity through Everyday Practices of Conflict and Discourse

Jones

2011

Sociological Perspectives

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Multiracials have the flexibility to opt out of multiracial identity, to shift identities depending on context, and are characterized by in-group diversity. Given this fluid space, how do multiracials come to see themselves as a collective? This article describes an empirical example of collectivization processes at work. Specifically, the author observed the process of collective identity-building through ethnographic research in a mixed-race student-run organization. This case study indicates that group identity formation is a negotiated process involving strategies to achieve a sense of belonging and cohesion. The author shows that over time, by using experiences of social conflict to construct shared experiences, the members of this mixed-race organization developed collective identity. In so doing, their experience underscores how collective identity development is socially constructed and how micropractices are essential components of group formation.

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Making the Invisible Visible: The Growth of Community Network Organizations

Cited by 11 publications

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Developing an integrated self: Academic and ethnic identities among ethnically diverse college students.

Developing an integrated self: Academic and ethnic identities among ethnically diverse college students.

When Race Becomes Even More Complex: Toward Understanding the Landscape of Multiracial Identity and Experiences

Who are We? Producing Group Identity through Everyday Practices of Conflict and Discourse

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