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	Biracial children's identity problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A biracial child is operationally definded as one whose biological parents are of dissimilar racial groups.
		Herring (1992) states that "biracial children are particularly vulnerable to differential treatments by their parents and relatives, social rejection by their peers, and ambivalent attention in their schools and communities" (p.
		The biracial children should be encouraged to explore both sides of their racial heritage in order to form a positive sense of identification with their ethnic and cultural roots (Gibbs, 1987).
	ematusov.soe.udel.edu /final.paper.pub/_pwfsfp/00000071.htm (1752 words)

	Encyclopedia: Biracial
		The terms multiracial, biracial and mixed-race describe people whose ancestors are not of a single race.
		(Biracial strictly refers to those with ancestors from exactly two races).
		There remain many circumstances in which biracial individuals are left with no real response when asked for demographic data.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Biracial (756 words)

	Identity Problems in Biracial Youth: The Leader, Fall 2004
		Biracial organizations are seeking to have a status of biracial children formally recognized and included in the U.S. Census.
		The primary justification for this treatment is that, in the eyes of American society, a biracial child is fl and, therefore, must identify positively with being fl and must be able to cope with discrimination toward her as a fl person.
		She also warns the court that, by treating a biracial child as fl, the courts decide first, that the biracial child should identify herself as one and only one race, and second, that this race should be fl.
	education.umn.edu /EdPA/licensure/leader/2004Fall/identity.html (1869 words)

	The Korea Times : Bi-Racial People Face Discrimination in Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Biracial people are more numerous now than in the past, and some of them are the object of envy for what is thought of as an exotic appearance.
		Many biracial children do not attend school, or they fail to complete school, as they cannot adapt to the environment of being ostracized in the classroom and on the playground by classmates.
		A nun volunteering at the Bethlehem childcare center for biracial children in northern Seoul said children who used to be bullied by classmates avoid people and throw up what they have eaten when they first enter the center.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/200505/kt2005052020230153460.htm (823 words)

	Professional School Counseling: School counselors' perceptions of biracial children: a pilot study
		The inability of the biracial child to culturally identify with both parents may cause the individual to experience feelings of disloyalty and enormous guilt over their rejection of one parent (Sebring, 1985).
		Regardless of race or ethnicity, when biracial children are raised in a nurturing environment with psychologically and emotionally involved parents, "they can be expected to acquire stability and cohesiveness of the self, and those attributes (e.g., self-confidence, capacity for empathy, self-approval, self-resiliency) intimately associated with healthy self-structure," (Brandell, 1988, p.
		Biracial children must routinely cope with glares, strange looks, and comments from people who in addition to rejecting their family structure (Steele, 1995), picture the family environment as pathological and unstable (Shackford, 1984).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KOC/is_2_6/ai_96194762 (1376 words)

	Professional School Counseling: Biracial youth: the role of the school counselor in racial identity development
		Herring (1992) noted that this lack of research was partly due to the resistance of biracial individuals and their families to being studied as well as to the small population of biracial youth.
		The school counselor is in a position to assist the biracial student in working through these issues, and to support the student's successful involvement and achievement within the school.
		Awareness is the recognition of the various factors related to biracialism, including individual and societal feelings toward interracial marriages and biracial births, a familiarity with historical and modern myths and stereotypes, and an appreciation for the advantages and disadvantages of biracialism (Schwartz, 1998a; Wardle, 1992; Wehrly et al., 1999).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KOC/is_1_5/ai_80306027 (1340 words)

	The Worldly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Biracial folk can be easily, though not always, recognizable with their hybrid color of eyes, skin tone, and hair.
		Being biracial must be pretty neat — you are in on two cultures with different perspectives and customs, instead of just one.
		The biracial population is growing and is hopefully pushing the ignorance down and out.
	www.worldlymag.com /section.asp?Section=159&Dept=4 (495 words)

	Biracial Identity Formation - Thesis
		The lack of comprehensive data in terms of Biracial identity formation, and the lack of tested and documented strategies for assisting and supporting Biracial children in their development, should be a concern to people in all segments of society.
		Consider the case study of a Biracial student at risk conducted in that same year (Kennedy, 1993) in which a 14 year-old-young woman, "Iesha," told of her experiences being expelled from a number of schools.
		Certainly the issue of dating taboos presents a unique problem for Biracial youth in that their dating experience will by definition be interracial and therefore subject to the critical evaluation of both society (Fly, 1995) and the minority group represented by part of their heritage (Wardle, 1992).
	lhs.lps.org /staff/gkeller/Pages/mastersthesis.html (18426 words)

	Racial Identification Parental Closeness in Biracial Young Adults
		A questionnaire consisting of five items was developed including questions about participants' racial identification (fl, white, or biracial), their parents race, the closeness of their relationship to each parent, a description of their and their parents skin color, and how long they lived with each parent.
		Pearson-product moment correlation coefficients were calculated on the two dependent variables of paternal and maternal closeness and five independent variables (identification as fl, white, and biracial, and two difference scores reflecting the participants' perception of the difference between their skin color and that of both their father and their mother).
		Contrary to the hypotheses of the study, there were no significant correlations between the similarity of the participants skin color to their parents skin color and the closeness of their relationship with that parent.
	www.puc.edu /Faculty/Aubyn_Fulton/fulton/research/wpa297.htm (1679 words)

	All Mixed Up : The Development of Biracial Identity
		I have to include the psychological perspective on identity formation among biracial children because I intend to use it in my argument that it is the responsibility of greater society to allow individuals to develop their own identity and to stop pressuring children to chose one race.
		In my research I came across a number of articles that argued that parents of biracial children are doing their children a disservice by applying that label to their child.
		The parents of biracial children will never know what it means to be biracial, and yet they face pressures of their own.
	hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/battias/get/cs356/s02/final/16.html?nogifs (1376 words)

	A POSITIVE APPROACH TO IDENTITY FORMATION OF BIRACIAL CHILDREN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Some people assume biracial children will grow up in a family consumed with conflict and that conflict will have a negative effect on their development.
		On the other hand, my research shows that biracial children may face conflict, as any child does, but it is up to the family to provide the foundation for them to overcome these conflicts.
		Many biracial children grow up to be well adjusted and have learned to fit into a variety of different social and cultural groups.
	ematusov.soe.udel.edu /final.paper.pub/_pwfsfp/00000085.htm (2930 words)

	Project RACE: From The Director: Important Messages from the Executive Director - biracial mixed race multiracial ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But it is vital that biracial children and adults have choice of embracing all of their heritage if that is what they choose.
		It's also important for biracial children and teens to know that all of their racial and ethnic parts make up wonderfully whole beings, who do have people fighting for their rights.
		Stereotyping biracial and multiracial people as confused, pathetic people with no identity, who must choose to be just one race, is wrong, no matter who does it.
	www.projectrace.com /fromthedirector (1039 words)

	Larry Davis on Biracial Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is a mistake to promote a biracial identity for children born to fl and non-fl parents.
		Black biracial people, who have been taught to Òdis-identifyÓ with other African Americans, are apt to experience tension when among the very group who would most immediately and sincerely be their friends and supporters, wives and husbands.
		Parents of biracial children should work to improve life opportunities of all children, and especially for those with whom their children will be forever linked -- African American children.
	news-info.wustl.edu /opeds/opeds96/davisDec96.html (732 words)

	MAYOR JOHNSON ADDRESSES NEW PARTICIPANTS IN PHASE III OF BIRACIAL PARTNERSHIPS FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS INITIATIVE
		The Biracial Partnerships for Community Progress Initiative held its kick-off session today to give participants an overview of the program, and inform them of whatâ€™s expected of them during the next twelve months.
		Phase III of the Biracial Partnerships program involves the pairing of 30 sets of "partners" who are a mixture of executives and middles managers from the greater Rochester community.
		The Biracial Partnerships for Community Progress was initiated by Mayor Johnson in 2001, with 90 year-long partnerships between executive leaders from al of the major institutions in the metropolitan Rochester community.
	www.ci.rochester.ny.us /Mayor/NewsReleases/index.cfm?release=1216 (352 words)

	Racial identity development in biracial individuals: An analysis of therapists' accounts of psychosocial and ...
		Therapists were asked to talk about their work with one to two of their biracial patients and share their experiences and impressions of particular themes related to biracial identity, including psychosocial factors and psychological factors such as transference, countertransference, object-relations, intrapsychic conflicts, developmental issues, defensive style, and trauma.
		The study explored and supported additional areas to consider in future research on biracial identity: (a) experiences with new family members through re-marriage; (b) roles of dating, partnering, spouse, and parent; (c) socio-economic status; (d) acculturation and assimilation; (e) language; (f) gender roles; and (g) media.
		The biracial persons' relationships with each of their parents, trauma, and how early life experiences are internalized and managed, including how these experiences shape object-relations, conflicts, and what defenses are employed, were shown to be psychological variables in this study that could have an impact on racial identification.
	www.sfsu.edu /~multsowk/title/386.htm (394 words)

	Biracial Identity F lint Public Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Once prominent Black Panther, biracial Johnny Spain discloses his story of community advocacy on the street, and in prison, and how he comes to terms with his racial heritage.
		Focuses on that unique and expanding group of individual who belong to two or more ethnic, cultural or spiritual worlds as they strive to embrace their differences while participating fully in contemporary mainstream society.
		Haizlip’s family tree has "roots in many gardens;" a striking image that translates into the fact that she and her siblings are fl, white, and Indian, a heritage far more common in our country than is ordinarily acknowledged.
	www.flint.lib.mi.us /fpl/biracial/index.shtml (608 words)

	The Haworth Press Online Catalog: Product: 'Biracial Women in Therapy' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Biracial Women in Therapy: Between the Rock of Gender and the Hard Place of Race examines how physical appearance, cultural knowledge, and cultural stereotypes affect the experience of mixed-race women in belonging to, and being accepted within, their cultures.
		Biracial Women in Therapy is a building block for mental health practitioners in the construction of theory and practice in working with biracial females.
		Biracial Women in Therapy: Between the Rock of Gender and the Hard Place of Race is a one-of-a-kind resource for counselors, therapists, researchers, and academics seeking insight into unique issues of mixed-race women.
	www.haworthpressinc.com /store/product.asp?sid=&sku=4924&AuthType=2 (659 words)

	Family Forums - Biracial Adoption
		This is a tough decison and simailar to one we are contemplating ourselves.
		Our daughter is biracial and for the most part people "see" what they want to "see".
		Thanks so much for your helpful responses with respect to our decision to foster with the hopes of adopting a biracial baby when we are moving to a small community in Maine which seems to be 99% white, in addition to our family, as it stands today, being 4/4, 100% white.
	forums.adoption.com /archive/index.php/t-145166.html (2964 words)

	Fertile Field: Being Biracial in America
		It is at that turning point that most biracial children feel as though they are forced to choose between cultures.
		Over-compensation usually seems to be a symptom for children of dual ethnicity; it is difficult because when the time comes for a child to begin to search for their identity, it is hard for them to find a sense of belonging.
		I believe children of biracial decent will find peace being themselves only when they realize that they are neither one culture nor the other, but in fact more than that, a child of God.
	www.fertilefield.org /articles/archives/000091.html (2338 words)

	biracial.html
		She also is a member of BOTH (Blends of Traditional Heritages) an educational discussion group developed by Penn State's Multicultural Resource Center and Counseling and Psychological Services.
		The group is for biracial students who share a common African heritage.
		The group reads the latest articles on biracial groups, watches videos addressing this issue and talks about experiences with dating, discrimination, family relations and society's expectations.
	www.psu.edu /ur/archives/intercom_1998/Oct15/biracial.html (625 words)

	JS Online: Biracial stars find TV sees roles in black or white
		As a biracial actress, "you occupy this middle zone," says White, who plays one of four female buddies in "Girlfriends," a UPN sitcom.
		Yet Joan, too, is played by a biracial actress: Tracee Ellis Ross, the daughter of music megastar Diana Ross and her first husband, music promoter Robert Ellis Silberstein, who is white.
		In a business where it's still somewhat unusual for a Halle Berry or a Lisa Bonet to "come out" about their mixed heritage, to use White's phrase, the subject is obviously a sensitive one.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/tvradio/mar02/25630.asp (1111 words)

	Family Forums - Being biracial, growing up white.
		In America white "culture" is everywhere you don't have to search for it.It is the standard and considered the norm.It's on t.v., in the movies, the media in general is influenced by it.
		I am 28years old and have a sister I guess to be about 3 years younger then me. She too is biracial and was adopted by what I was told to be a white family.
		We feel she is biracial but we also no that there are some people who wont look at her as white or fl.
	forums.adoption.com /archive/index.php/t-4656.html (3827 words)

	Amazon.com: Black, White, Other: Books: Lise Funderburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Black, White, Other journalist Lise Funderburg questions 46 biracial Americans about family and love, work and religion, and the mythology surrounding the "tragic mulatto." Her book reveals a great deal about life on both sides of the color line--and exposes just how artificial, how socially constructed, our concept of race is to begin with.
		Funderburg does an excellent job of finding biracial people and asking questions that help them to explain their understanding of race and how it was formulated.
		Having a biracial fl and white marriage and raising biracial children, I found the book helpful in reading about other experiences; however many of those experinces were negative compared to our family's.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688143474?v=glance (1410 words)

	Biracial? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Just to clear his head from arrogance his white flesh should be peeled from his body and hung by his testicles.
		A community standard would be what I would favor, since it would allow for individual municipal or county governments to set their own standards for racial purity.
		Location: Anderson, SC Some people say those who are biracial belong to both races.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?p=528813 (592 words)

	JS Online: Biracial? Actually, he's always considered himself black
		As a biracial male writer at the Journal Sentinel, I was intrigued to hear that a long story was in the works addressing the increasing presence of biracial Americans in Milwaukee and nationwide.
		But however fl in appearance, I'm a biracial American in the truest sense of the word: My mother is a white woman from Fond du Lac, my father a dark-brown native of Chicago's south side.
		The city's relatively small percentage of biracial families tended to congregate in our neighborhood, so it wasn't that unusual to see other mixed kids and couples, even in the late '60s.
	www.jsonline.com /news/editorials/may00/carter14051300.asp (1770 words)

	Biracial Identity: The Complexities of This Identity - Seminar Training CDs & Tapes/Race and Culture in Adoption (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The goal of this workshop is to address biracial identity and the controversies that surround it.
		Covered will be: a historical context in the U.S.; the treatment of biracial children in adoption; racism, specific to biracial identity; and what it means to be biracial today and how biracial people search for their racial identity.
		By using it you agree to the terms of service, including jurisdiction and limitation of liability provisions.
	adoptionshop.com /p896/seminar-training-tapes-race-and-culture-in-adoption/biracial-identity-the-complexities-of-this-identity.html (254 words)

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