Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in CaliforniaPosted in Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Papers/Presentations, Social Science, United States on 2010-10-30 16:04Z by Steven |
Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in California
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Conference
35th Annual Conference
2008-04-01
11 pages
Rebecca Romo
University of California, Santa Barbara
This paper explores the life experiences of Blaxicans, or multiracial individuals who are the products of unions that are composed of one biological (or birth) parent who is identified and designated as Mexicana/o or Chicana/o, and one parent who is identified and designated as African American or Black. Most research on racial intermarriage and multiracial offspring in the United States has concentrated on European American unions with African Americans or other people of color and their descendants. Research on “dual-minority unions” and their offspring is scant (Wallace 2001). The examination of how identity formation operates among multiracial offspring whose biological parents are non-white is limited and informs the basis of this investigation of Blaxican identity. In this introduction, I discuss the literature related to Blaxican identity, including: Black identity, Chicana/o identity, and dual-minority multiracial identity. The goal of this paper is to investigate how mixed-race Black and Chicana/o individuals racially identify and to examine the processes that influenced their decision of racial self-identification.
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