Multiracial theory presentation

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FACES OF RACES

INFORMATION SESSION2012 CONFERENCE

SUCCESS UNIVERSITYLindsy Donahue

Judy Juarez

Please take a seat in your

assigned group

We’ll get started in just a few moments…

MIXED RACE STUDENTS

STUDENT LEADERS

FACULTY

Who is here?

let’s meet.

We want you to be the experts.

Kristen Renn’s Ecological Theory of Mixed-Race Identity Development

Ecological Influences

Identity Patterns

Bronfenbrenner’s (PPCT) Model

Person

Process

Context

Time

PersonCultural Knowledge

Family background Physical Appearance

Processes are ongoing, enduring forms

They are progressively more complex

They are reciprocal

They involve interactions between an evolving person and other

people, or symbols

They occur in the setting containing the developing individual

Process

Bro

nfen

bren

ner’s

Eco

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odel

Context

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MICROSYSTEM

MESOSYSTEM

EXOSYSTEM

MACROSYSTEM

Time

CHRONOSYSTEM

HistoricalPersonal

Ecological Influences

Identity Patterns

IDENTITY PATTERNS

A single identity may be neither possible nor desirable for mixed-

race students.

Renn (2004) described five fluid and

non-exclusive “identity patterns” all of which she viewed as healthy.

All but eight of the fifty-six students interviewed identified in more than one way.

Monoracial Multiple Monoracial

Multiracial Extraracial

Situational

48%

MONORACIAL IDENTITY

The individual chooses one of his

or her heritage backgrounds to identify with.

[I’m Black]

Juan

MULTIPLE MONORACIAL IDENTITY

Kimlien

[I’m Asian and Latina]48

%

Kimlien

MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY

89%

Jack[I’m

Mix

ed]

The individual elects an identity that is neither one heritage nor another, but

of a distinct “multicultural” group on

par with other racial categories.

EXTRARACIAL IDENTITY

25% None of the students who choose this

identity choose this one solely.

Marisa

[I don’t Check Any Boxes]

Student holds an extraracial identity by deconstructing race or opting out of identification with the U.S. racial categories.

SITUATIONAL IDENTITY

61%

The ability to read contexts and construct racial identity in relation to specific contexts is a highly evolved skill requiring emotional maturity and cognitive complexity (Renn, 2004).

Kate

[It Depends]

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2Who: Mixed-race students, student leaders and facultyWhat: Faces of Races Annual Conference

When: Friday November 16, 2012

Where: Success University

Ope

ning

Ses

sion With Dr.

Kristen Renn

Campus Culture and Student Identities S

econ

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on With Dr. Vivica Johnson

Ecological Influences C

omed

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ct Anjela Johnson

Mexican/Native American actress/comedian

AGENDA REVIEW:

Project Race

Hapa Project

Mixed Race Project

The Race Card Project

RESOURCES:

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Group 4

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BREAKOUT SESSION:

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FACES OF RACES

INFORMATION SESSION2012 CONFERENCE

SUCCESS UNIVERSITYLindsy Donahue

Judy Juarez

Thank-you!

We’re glad you joined us!

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