Mixed signals : negotiating multiracial identity in high school contexts
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This study investigates the ways in which mixed-race adolescents racially identify in our current racial climate, the relationships between racial identity and important life outcomes for this sample, and how the experience of schooling can be an important source of information in the development of a racial identity. Using a mixed-methods design, two types of analysis were employed. Statistical analysis was used on survey data revealing border racial identities are an overwhelmingly popular racial identity choice, regardless of participants' high schools' racial demographics or racial climate. This analysis also supports research with monoracially-identified samples that posits racial private regard is positively associated with social-psychological well-being and positive academic outcomes. Interview analysis supports the popularity of border identities, but as one of many shifting ethnic and racial identities employed for various reasons and with varying levels of agency. Interviews also reveal the ways in which high schools are places where mixed-race youth both endure microaggressions and seek out opportunities for ethnic racial socialization and understanding. Recommendations for further research and implications for practice are discussed.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Sullivan, Shayna Marie |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
| Primary advisor | LaFromboise, Teresa Davis |
| Thesis advisor | LaFromboise, Teresa Davis |
| Thesis advisor | Carter, Prudence L |
| Thesis advisor | Elam, Michele |
| Thesis advisor | Nasir, Na'ilah Suad |
| Advisor | Carter, Prudence L |
| Advisor | Elam, Michele |
| Advisor | Nasir, Na'ilah Suad |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Shayna Marie Sullivan. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Shayna Marie Sullivan
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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