Mixed Student Resources » Maria Root

The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders

Ani Orantes — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:38:36 +0000

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Racially Mixed People in America

Ani Orantes — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:38:24 +0000

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Experiences and Processes affecting Racial Identity Development

Ani Orantes — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:38:14 +0000

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Maria P.P. Root – Publications and Resources

Ani Orantes — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:20:20 +0000

This is Dr Root’s site that has listings of all of her research. Of most interest to this subject is her great wealth of research on mixed race issues. The link below is that of her list of resources and articles published. http://www.drmariaroot.com/publications.php#references

Ecological Framework for Understanding Multiracial Identity Development

Ani Orantes — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:57:46 +0000

This is a document that is great for those looking at student development from an environmental forces perspective. This is a great document for academics and those in the counseling field who are wanting to learn more, from a big system perspective, about where in a students world information about being mixed heritage (good or bad) is coming from.

http://www.drmariaroot.com/doc/EcologicalFramework.pdf

This could also be beneficial to people who are trying to look at their campus culture to evaluate what kind of atmosphere their university provides for their mixed heritage student population.

Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage

Ani Orantes — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:08:45 +0000

This is a document that could be very liberating for mixed race students. This would be good for all the audiences, but specifically for the mixed race student who is at a stage where they are able to say “this is how I would like to identify myself at this point in time”. I think that it is also a very good reminder to others that the experience of which it asserts the rights to have are experiences that monoracial helping professionals or parents might take for granted, or might try to have students do.

Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage

50 Experiences of Racially Mixed People

Ani Orantes — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:03:01 +0000

This list came out of the research Dr. Root was doing to the biracial siblings project. This is a list of 50 statements, questions, or experiences that mixed race student were confronted with. As she states in the introduction to the list, it is not exhaustive and not all people experience all of the items on the list, and not all people experience them to the same extent. This is a very good document for counseling professionals, as well as student development people to use to begin to have some sort of understanding of the experiences that students of mixed heritage are confronted with. This is also I think a very good document to use to begin conversations with students of mixed heritage, or groups of students to begin to talk about their experiences and begin conversations about what it is like to be mixed. I know that when I read this there were some things that I identified with and others that never really happened to me, but the fact that it was not just me that had gone through things like this made me feel like there were others out there that would understand what its like to experience even just a fraction of these experiences.

50 Experiences

Love’s Revolution: Interracial Marriage

Ani Orantes — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:31:24 +0000

This book does not focus primarily on the experience of mixed-race children. Instead Root focuses on the experiences that inter-racial couples go through when considering marriage. This includes the reactions of family, broader social forces, historical issues, and how notions of race and acceptance are being changed by these interracial couples and the children they produce. Though this book focuses primarily on the institution of marriage, there is a chapter [Chapter 7 – Parents, Children and Race] that talks about the significance of the interracial child to the world, common reactions of grandparents and other family members to these children, parenting mixed-race children, and helps parents and or helping professional begin to understand how these two generations (monoracial parents and mixed-race children) differ in their concepts of race and how they experience race.