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Strategies for Racial Identity Development: Narratives of Black and White Women in Interracial Partner Relationships *
Author(s) -
Hill Miriam R.,
Thomas Volker
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2000.00193.x
Subject(s) - identity (music) , narrative , gender studies , grounded theory , white (mutation) , social psychology , sociology , focus group , exploratory research , strict constructionism , psychology , identity formation , qualitative research , racial formation theory , narrative inquiry , racism , self concept , epistemology , aesthetics , social science , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , anthropology , gene
This exploratory qualitative study used individual interviews and a focus group to investigate how women in Black‐White interracial heterosexual partner relationships retrospectively described their racial identity development over the course of the relationships. Racial identity development, social constructionist, and feminist theories guided the grounded theory methodology. Participants described a process of restorying constraining narratives of racial identity into empowering racial identities through three types of strategies: blocking strategies, transforming strategies, and generating strategies.