Racial Mislabeling in Multiracial Individuals: Implications for Professional Counseling and Education

McDonald, C. Peeper; Chang, Catharina Y; O’Hara, Caroline; Guvensel, Kan; Parker, Lindy K.

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“…Research into this anomaly has found that black ethnicity is mislabelled on death certificates [2]. A quote from a participant in a racial mislabelling study stated, ‗If you're not white skin toned, then you're Black' [44]. This may explain why all the statistics are so high; people only use two ethnicities when making calls to the police.…”

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Public Influence on the Ethnic Disparity in Stop-and-Search Statistics in Four London Boroughs

Dippie,

Hasan

2024

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The literature on police stop-and-search events over the last two decades has heavily criticised the police for being racially disproportionate towards young black men compared to their white counterparts, resulting in the police being labelled as institutionally racist. However, none of the literature considers the fact that the public reporting of incidents may have had a major and direct influence on police stop-and-search outcomes. This significant issue remains a hidden and under-researched area, even though the disproportionality of police stop-and-search incidents is the leading cause of the negative relationship between the police and black and minority ethnic groups. This study addresses this gap by examining public bias in reporting incidents that result in police stopping and searching an individual. This study addresses this gap by examining public bias in reporting incidents that result in police stopping and searching an individual. A mixed method approach has been taken and primary data has been collected through freedom of information requests from the four borough command units (BCU) of the Metropolitan Police with densely populated areas with Black and Asian minority groups to investigate the link between public calls or reports of incidents and the initiation of police stop-and-search events. This data has been measured against national stop and search statistics in line with demographic data gathered from National Census data for the areas. The research concludes that there is discrimination against black and minority ethnic groups in members of the public reporting concerns. Freedom of information request for quantitative data from the Metropolitan Police reveals that public calls for reported incidents are on average 8.4 times more likely to describe the perpetrator as black European rather than white and 23.9 times more likely in the Central East borough when describing Asian ethnicity.

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Public Influence on the Ethnic Disparity in Stop-and-Search Statistics in Four London Boroughs

Dippie,

Hasan

2024

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Working with Multiracial Individuals: Antiracist Pedagogy, Practices, and Considerations

McDonald

Chang

2022

Developing Anti-Racist Practices in the Helping Professions: Inclusive Theory, Pedagogy, and Application

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Racial Mislabeling in Multiracial Individuals: Implications for Professional Counseling and Education

Abstract: With the extreme growth of people who identify as Biracial or Multiracial, it is evident that their unique racial experiences need to be better understood, especially within the field of professional counseling, to underscore competent practice

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Public Influence on the Ethnic Disparity in Stop-and-Search Statistics in Four London Boroughs

Public Influence on the Ethnic Disparity in Stop-and-Search Statistics in Four London Boroughs

Working with Multiracial Individuals: Antiracist Pedagogy, Practices, and Considerations

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