TY - JOUR
T1 - A Framework for Use with Racially and Culturally Integrated Families
T2 - The Cultural-Racial Identity Model as Applied to Transracial Adoption
AU - Baden, Amanda L.
AU - Steward, Robbie J.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - A new model for understanding and depicting the unique identity experiences of those reared in racially and/or culturally integrated families is presented. The model accounts for heterogeneity within groups defined by their racially integrated families. For the purpose of describing and presenting the model, it was applied to the unique experiences of transracial adoptees. The model allows distinctions to be made between racial identity and cultural identity. These distinctions comprise 16 proposed identities of transracial adoptees and are made up of the degrees to which they have knowledge of, awareness of, competence within, and comfort with their own racial group's culture, their parents' racial group's culture, and multiple cultures as well as the degree to which they are comfortable with their racial group membership and with those belonging to their own racial group, their parents' racial group, and multiple racial groups. A model for understanding the role of parents, extended families, and social and environmental contexts was also presented as a guide for demonstrating the factors impacting the cultural-racial identities of transracial adoptees or others from racially and/or culturally integrated families.
AB - A new model for understanding and depicting the unique identity experiences of those reared in racially and/or culturally integrated families is presented. The model accounts for heterogeneity within groups defined by their racially integrated families. For the purpose of describing and presenting the model, it was applied to the unique experiences of transracial adoptees. The model allows distinctions to be made between racial identity and cultural identity. These distinctions comprise 16 proposed identities of transracial adoptees and are made up of the degrees to which they have knowledge of, awareness of, competence within, and comfort with their own racial group's culture, their parents' racial group's culture, and multiple cultures as well as the degree to which they are comfortable with their racial group membership and with those belonging to their own racial group, their parents' racial group, and multiple racial groups. A model for understanding the role of parents, extended families, and social and environmental contexts was also presented as a guide for demonstrating the factors impacting the cultural-racial identities of transracial adoptees or others from racially and/or culturally integrated families.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034414483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/A:1009493827019
DO - 10.1023/A:1009493827019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034414483
SN - 1053-0789
VL - 9
SP - 309
EP - 337
JO - Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless
JF - Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless
IS - 4
ER -