CHAPTER 16 Multicultural Counseling Contexts: Multiracial Americans

Question 1

what 3 things shape identity for those that are multiracial

Answer 1

one’s phenotype, racial socialization in the home, and the neighborhood/environment in which one is raised.

Question 2

what is the fastest growing racial group in america

Answer 2

multiracial

Question 3

what is miscegenation

Answer 3

intermixing races especially when one is white aka racial contamination

Question 4

what 3 things happen when one is not able to list their multi raciality

Answer 4

a) deny racial realities, (b) undermine pride in being multiracial, and (c) ignore important personal information (e.g., the medical advantages of knowing one’s racial heritage).

Question 5

when were the last laws against racial mixing appealed

Answer 5

1967

Question 6

what is the most common multi race

Answer 6

white and native american

Question 7

what is the one drop rule or a hypodescent

Answer 7

class‐based social system that maintains the myth of monoracialism by assigning a person of mixed racial heritage to the least desirable racial status.

Question 8

according to the one drop rule, what other race is the worst for whites to breed with

Answer 8

black

Question 9

according to the one drop rule, how are black women seen

Answer 9

as masculine so they are less desirable

Question 10

what part of america do multiracial people identify with their minority identiay

Answer 10

midwest

Question 11

what income bracket do multiracial start to prefer to be labelled as white

Answer 11

over 100,000$

Question 12

what are 5 strenghts of being multiracial

Answer 12

better psychological adjustment, see things from different aspects, lower levels of stress due to less expoosure of alientation and SUD, being intriguing to others, greater ability for international travel

Question 13

what is racial or ethnicity ambigutiuy

Answer 13

not being able to be identified by a singular race or ethnicity

Question 14

what one question do those that ar emultiracial face that is persistently due to monoracialism and race purity ideas

Answer 14

“what are you?”

Question 15

what was wrong with early studies on interracial marriagse

Answer 15

they were corrupted by societal values at the time that sought to spur these marriages from coming along so they studies would say that such marriages were unhealthy

Question 16

do biracial people experience discrimination as much as those of their minority race that are monoracial?

Answer 16

yes. half white and half black kids experience as much discrimination as someone that is entirely black.

Question 17

what is racial identity invalidation

Answer 17

when people that are multiracial are attempted to be put into a single “box” of a single race or culture rather than allowed to be as they are.

Question 18

what are the 4 reasons that 61% of those that are multiracial deny they are multiracial

Answer 18

they look like one race
they were raised as one race
they identify with a single race
thye didn’t know the other family member that was a member of the other race

Question 19

what are the 4 possible choices for a perosn that is multiracial to reach a healthy disposition regarding their raciality

Answer 19

accepts identity assigned by society (very fluid racial identity that changes based on their enviironment)

identify with both groups (adaptable and can be healthy so long as thye see this movement between as a positive and maintain self-integrity as such)

choose a single racial identity (individual make the choice - not society, and it does not shift

identifies with multiracial heritage (equal value attributed to all aspects of themselves)