Authors: Kristen A. Renn
ISBN-13: 9780791461631, ISBN-10: 0791461637
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Kristen A. Renn offers a new perspective on racial identity in the United States, that of mixed race college students making sense of the paradox of deconstructing racial categories while living on campuses sharply divided by race and ethnicity. Focusing on how peer culture shapes identity in public and private spaces, the book presents the findings of a qualitative research study involving fiftysix undergraduates from a variety of institutions. Renn uses an innovative ecology model to examine campus peer cultures and documents five patterns of multiracial identity that illustrate possibilities for integrating notions of identity construction (and deconstruction) with the highly salient nature of race in higher education. One of the most ambitious scholarly attempts to date to portray the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students, the book also discusses implications for higher education practice, policy, theory, and research.
Author Biography: Kristen A. Renn is Assistant Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University.
Ch. 1 | The context of mixed race students in American higher education | 1 |
Ch. 2 | The ecology of multiracial identity on campus - an analytic framework and research design | 27 |
Ch. 3 | Patterns of multiracial identity among college students | 67 |
Ch. 4 | I'm Black - monoracial identity | 95 |
Ch. 5 | I'm Asian and Latina - multiple monoracial identities | 123 |
Ch. 6 | I'm mixed - multiracial identity | 155 |
Ch. 7 | I don't check any boxes - extraracial identity | 193 |
Ch. 8 | It depends - situational identity | 219 |
Ch. 9 | From patterns to practice - what mixed race identity patterns mean for educational practice | 243 |
App. A | Revisions to the standards for the classification of federal data on race and ethnicity | 259 |
App. B | Summary of study participants | 261 |
App. C | Interview and focus group protocols | 267 |