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Khanna, Nikki Denise.

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Living life in black and white: Identity formation and negotiation among black-white biracial Americans.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Living life in black and white: Identity formation and negotiation among black-white biracial Americans./
Author:	Khanna, Nikki Denise.
Description:	253 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Cathryn Johnson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3279879
ISBN:	9780549216667

Living life in black and white: Identity formation and negotiation among black-white biracial Americans.
Khanna, Nikki Denise.

Living life in black and white: Identity formation and negotiation among black-white biracial Americans. - 253 p.

Adviser: Cathryn Johnson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2007.

In recent years, there has been growing academic interest in biracial and multiracial people in America. An expanding multiracial population coupled with questions regarding how to count these individuals in the U.S. Census has led to an explosion in scholarly research examining racial identity among individuals claiming more than one race. Much of this research, however, remains atheoretical, exploratory, and limited in its approach to measuring racial identity. In addition, no known research examines biracial identity in a Southern context. Through face-to-face interviews with forty black-white biracial adults living in the metro-Atlanta area, I examine racial identity; in particular, I investigate how racial identity is formed and negotiated in social interactions with others in their day-to-day lives. This work deviates from previous research, which often measures racial identity based on the racial labels individuals use to describe themselves (e.g. black, white, biracial). In contrast, I take a more nuanced, multidimensional approach to racial identity, focusing the bulk of this study not on the racial labels individuals use, but rather their internalized identities (i.e. the race with which they most strongly identify). While most of the individuals in this sample draw on multiracial labels to describe themselves to others (e.g. biracial, multiracial, mixed), the majority also more strongly identify as black rather than white. I investigate factors that work to shape black identities rather than white or biracial identities, and find that contrary to recent claims by some scholars, the one drop rule persists and continues to influence black-white identity even today. Physical appearance, although growing in importance, remains relatively less important than the one drop rule in shaping racial identity. By taking a qualitative approach to examining racial identity and grounding my research in diverse theoretical perspectives in sociology and psychology (e.g. symbolic interactionism, social comparison theory), I added to the literature by investigating, not only how biracial individuals racially identify, but also the underlying processes by which their identities are formed and negotiated with others.

ISBN: 9780549216667Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Living life in black and white: Identity formation and negotiation among black-white biracial Americans.
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