Editors:
- Provides a lifespan overview of the diverse experiences of biracial families
- Includes research on transracial and international adoption
- Offers historical background on race in America
- Highlights areas for future research
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (12 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Family Formation
-
Front Matter
-
-
Challenges and Opportunities
-
Front Matter
-
-
Back Matter
About this book
This interdisciplinary volume surveys the diverse experiences of biracial families, both across and outside the black/white binary. The book examines the deep-rooted social contexts that inform the lifespan of interracial families, from dating and marriage through the stages of parenthood, as well as families’ unique responses and realities. Through a variety of structures and settings including blended and adoptive families, contributors describe families’ strengths and resilience in meeting multiple personal and larger social challenges. The intricacies of parenting and family development are also revealed as an ongoing learning process as parents and children construct identity, culture, and meaning.
Among the topics covered:
- Social constitutionality of race in America: some meanings for biracial/multiracial families.
- Interracial marriages: historical and contemporary trends.
- Racial socialization: a developmental perspective.
- Biracial families formed through adoption.
- Diverse family structures within biracial families.
- Racial identity: choices, context, and consequences.
Addressing lingering gaps in the existing literature and highlighting areas for future study, Biracial Families gives readers a fuller understanding of a growing and diversifying population. Its depth and breadth of coverage makes the book an invaluable reference not only for practitioners and researchers, but also for educators and interracial families across the spectrum.
Editors and Affiliations
-
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, USA
Roudi Nazarinia Roy
-
Child and Family Development Program School of Human Services, Harmon College of Business and Professional Studies, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, USA
Alethea Rollins
About the editors
Alethea Rollins, Ph.D. earned her M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She completed her post-doctoral work at the Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships at UNCG. Alethea is a professor, researcher, wife and mother. She teaches courses in human development across the lifespan, including child development and adolescence, adulthood, and death, grief and dying. She volunteers regularly in her children’s schools and with the school district at large. Her research focuses on bi/multiracial individuals and families, parental racial socialization, and racial socialization practices of early childhood educators.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biracial Families
Book Subtitle: Crossing Boundaries, Blending Cultures, and Challenging Racial Ideologies
Editors: Roudi Nazarinia Roy, Alethea Rollins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96160-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96159-0Published: 18 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96160-6Published: 12 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 260
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Family, Developmental Psychology, Psychotherapy