Multiracial

different race groups. Approximately, multiracial descents make up a national population about 7.5 million people. Latinos is considered common mixed race, but doesn’t count because those who is considered to be a mixed with Hispanic are forced to choose one racial identity. As for African-Americans, 30% to 70% are considered multiracial by several generations of multiracial. According to Sue (2016), gender is a thought that Latinas, Asian American, and Native American women are more likely than men to marry interracially. Although, Black and White men have a higher interracial marriage rate, they are not at large as other races. The highest rate of…

Many multiracial children often struggle with authenticity because they are not full-blooded of one particular race. The concept of multiracial children and their struggle for identity is another concept Zack touches on in this book. This struggle is the same one Zits goes through, but he experiences it worse because he doesn’t have a mother or father to look up to and had no one to teach him how to act or live out with his multiracial blood. This sparked confusion in his life because he truly…

The first article in my selection is titled: “Who is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask” by Eileen Patten. This article addresses the issue of self-identification in relation to one’s race. Patten notes that one’s race is not something that is simply defined. In fact, many different factors determine the way in which one identifies himself, herself, or their self. Because of this, Patten seeks to address and breakdown the differentiating components in one’s own racial identification. The…

immigrants will get deported. It is important not to deport immigrants because they create a more multiracial America, which helps to redraw and blur color lines in America. Becoming a more multi-racial society will also change…

While parenting have a major impact on the formation of identity, race also play a large role in forming identity. As the world become more diverse, racial identity is one aspect of identity development that had been widely recognized (Lundahl & Hull 2015 p149). Racial identity can be challenging for multiracial individuals because they can face difficulty finding where they fit into society. For instance, individuals from a biracial or multicultural background may feel compelled to pick a side…

Harris (2013) mentions that “Culturally skilled counselors and other mental health professionals are encouraged to become aware of potential changes in their perceptions of multiracial persons if they are from single-parent families.” (Harris, 2013, p. 390). Counselors are also encouraged to continue their awareness and do self-examination on them if necessary. Developing their awareness of single-parent families enables them to increase their effort to work with diverse clients. Kristen Harris…

With acceptance and compromise, race and religion do not matter in a marriage. “Among Jewish Americans with a non-Jewish spouse, 25 percent say they are raising their children partly Jewish and partly something else”(Hanes, 2014). The importance of this is that These couples all made a compromise, they proved it is possible to keep their religion and still raise a child that has parts of both religions as a part of their culture. “Parents were less hesitant to report their children as…

cultural identity questions “everybody else,” the identification to the dominant group, takes on a natural appearance, remains unnamed and unquestioned, and therefore disguses and hides power relations between the oppressor and the oppressed. Secondly, cultural identity is fluid. Ones cultural identity is ever evolving, growing, and channing. Third, cultural identity is nonsummative. “In other words, one’s cultural identity is not a simple addition of the component parts of ones cultural…

questions, and wonder trying to figure out what they mean. You look around and catch a glimpse of others around you with similar expressions. These sights of confusion, questions, and wonder are constants in my life. Similar to an abstract painting, people are confused by my appearance, and yet I have no discombobulated body like a Picasso or Dalí paintings. I am and look like a normal girl except for one element, I, along with nine million of my fellow Americans, am more than one race. This…

Mestizaje is a Spanish term that is acknowledged when the individual is interrelated of mixed descendant and also related to miscegenation. There are a variety of different societal attitudes towards Mestizaje and Miscegenation. Furthermore, scholars who studied racial and gender formations have affirmed that people who embodied multiracial descent disrupt, “the social projects which create and reproduce structures of domination based on essentialist categories of race that have existed since…