By Andra M. Basu
ISBN-10: 1593115962
ISBN-13: 9781593115968
This publication examines the id offerings of a gaggle of biracial collage girls and explores how those identifications relate to their offerings and structures of alternative social contexts. it's a qualitative examine that pulls on fresh mental literature, in addition to own interviews and concentration teams with a gaggle of biracial university girls. The e-book comprises 1) a overview of the suitable literature bearing on biracial participants, 2) a dialogue of a few of the original concerns dealing with researchers who paintings with biracial populations, and three) an indepth exam of the connection among id and diverse social contexts for a bunch of biracial girls. The publication addresses matters severe to educators, counselors, coverage makers and researchers who paintings with biracial scholars, in addition to biracial participants and their households. for instance, it exhibits how, for this workforce of biracial university ladies, id offerings did impression their offerings and structures of social contexts, relatively on the university that all of them attended. but whereas identity offerings did impression their perceptions approximately their social contexts, different components resembling social obstacles additionally inspired them. relatives performed a job of their identity offerings to boot, yet siblings have been stumbled on to be extra influential than mom and dad. moreover, the booklet demonstrates how educators and biracial mentors had an important impression in this specific crew of biracial ladies. the consequences of those findings for fogeys, educators and destiny researchers are thought of, because the variety of biracial contributors dwelling within the usa keeps to develop.
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Do they identify themselves differently with different groups of people? If they do, how so? Participants were also questioned about how the people in the social contexts they are part of identify them. For example, how do they think their friends identify them and how do they wish they would identify them? In regard to context, participants were asked to write and then talk about the situations in which they feel the most and the least comfortable. They were also interviewed about several specific social contexts, such as those including their friends, peers, and coworkers.
However, close to half of the participants felt that their siblings identified differently than they did regardless of the social context they grew up in. This was a source of tension in some of the participants’ families, but it also allowed them to see different ways for them to identify themselves. One woman explained: Well, there’s two of them, my brother and my sister. … And my sister, she does both … she can identify … with my father’s group … or my mother’s group. This woman identified primarily with her mother’s background, although her sister felt that she should explore more of her father’s background.
One theme that had not been considered prior to the focus groups was the topic of high school versus college and how the participants felt these environments differed. For the most part, almost all participants had a negative view of high school, primarily because of the social cliques that existed and because they often felt pressure to choose to affiliate with one group over another. … Asian people, [White people, and Black people] … the first six tables … all the Negotiating Social Contexts: Identities of Biracial College Women, 45–50 Copyright © 2007 by Information Age Publishing All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.
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