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

• Autore: Brown Ursula M
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/00973
• Soggetto topico: Racially mixed people - United States; Ethnicity - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-147) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- NOTE -- 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 -- EXPOSURE TO CULTURE -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The interracial experience
• ISBN: 9798400671791; 9780313000331; 0313000336
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910963154903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II