This article details an autoethnography project of our odysseys into the pedagogy of unlearning racism. Our knowledge creation process forced us to re-envision both our locations in, and pedagogy of, anti-racism work, with particular attention to the challenges and dangers of teaching about, to, and from White privilege within social work. In the…

Describes the placement experiences in the child welfare system of 10 children of mixed African-American and Caucasian parentage. A case study review assessed biological parents' feelings about their children's racial identity and service needs, and examined the selection of potential foster families. Offers guidelines for child welfare policy and…

Explores the history of "white purity" as a racist concept and addresses the perception that people of mixed heritage (or "mulattos") are classified as black. The history of mulattos, from the 1400s through modern times, and the changing definitions of race are discussed. (MAK)

Nearly two and a half million people in U.S. indicate that they are full-blood American Indians whereas only four million designate their radical identity as mixed-blood. The first step in developing rhetoric of mixed-blood people is for indigenous nations themselves to examine and review the hegemonic practices surrounding tribal enrollment.

This exploratory study began by postulating a theoretical model of the dynamics of racial identity choice by biracial children based on the literature cited and counseling experience with biracial children in public educational institutions in Hawaii. The structured interview approach was used with high school students (N=50). A questionnaire…

Interviews with a group of biracial adults (ages 17-35) suggest advantages in coming from an interracial background. Many subjects reported that dealing with parents from different racial groups made them more tolerant, objective, and nonjudgmental. These findings disprove notions about "mongrelization" and stereotypes about biracial people having…

Provides the Web addresses and describes the content of several Web sites addressing multiracial issues. Some pages were gathered at a meeting of the American Library Association, while others are the result of an Internet search. Also touches on the new racial identification options with the 2000 Census. (EV)

Results of nine qualitative interviews with White (Pakeha) mothers of non-White children in New Zealand are provided, as are excerpts from personal narratives of biracial persons. J. E. Helms's (1995) White Racial Identity and W. S. C. Poston's (1990) Biracial Identity models are presented for theoretical insight. Implications for counseling are…

Research on multiracial individuals is often cross-sectional, obscuring the fluid nature of multiracial self-categorization across time. Pathways of racial self-identification are developed from a nationally representative sample of adolescents aged 14-18, measured again 5 years later. A significant proportion of multiracial adolescents change…

This article presents the findings of a literature review conducted in order to assess the degree to which the biracial/multiracial population has been addressed in the four major journals of counseling psychology: "Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development,""Journal of Counseling and Development,""The Counseling Psychologist," and the…

The expanding body of research on children and adults born to interracial/ethnic couples is in response, no doubt, to the changing demographics of the past three decades. This paper discusses the epistemological shift caused by these demographic changes. Many of the studies conducted since the 1980s on the contemporary experiences of mixed…

Asserts that racism is part of everyday life among U.S. Latinos and is confounded by U.S. racism. Further asserts white Latinos implement systematic racism against their dark compatriots, supported by institutionalized U.S. racism. Elite white Latinos distance themselves from "social white" Latinos. U.S. racism defines interethnic and…

Using an ecology model of human development, frames the exploration of racial identities of 38 college students with multiple racial heritages. Maps the influence of interactions within and between specific environments on students' decisions to identify in one or more of five patterns of mixed race identity found in a previous study. (Contains 43…

In this case study, the progression of racial identity development (RID) is described in two individuals. The study was designed to describe nonclinical experiences of being biracial, explore how Black identity has different meaning for biracial people, and distinguish between Black RID and biracial RID. Raises questions about the generalizability…

This paper addresses the growing interest among social scientists in studying the experiences of so-called mixed-race (or multiracial, biracial, or mixed heritage) individuals, when the study of multiraciality risks reinforcing the notion of fixed races. Distinguishing mixed-race people as a category assumes that there are pure races to begin with…