Mixed Race Children (1987) challenges the stereotype of ‘mixed race’ children having identity problems, that they ‘don’t fit in anywhere’, showing that many of the children in this study of radical identity and categorization had worked out their own positive mixed race identity. The study goes on to consider the circumstances under which such an identity seemed to flourish.
Mixed Race Children (1987) challenges the stereotype of ‘mixed race’ children having identity problems, that they ‘don’t fit in anywhere’, showing that many of the children in this study of radical identity and categorization had worked out their own positive mixed race identity.
1. Between Black and White
2. Who Thinks in Terms of Black and White?
3.
The Doll Studies and the Present Study
4. Who Am I? Categorization,
Identification and Preference
5. Identity Patterns: Multiracial Are versus
White Area
6. Let Them Be Themselves: Mothers Attitude, Childrens
Identity
7. The Mothers Views of Racism
8. Conclusions
