Mixed Race Students in College: The Ecology of Race, Identity, and Community on Campus
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Kristen A. Renn offers a new perspective on racial identity in the United States, that of mixed race college students making sense of the paradox of deconstructing racial categories while living on campuses sharply divided by race and ethnicity. Focusing on how peer culture shapes identity in public and private spaces, the book presents the findings of a qualitative research study involving fiftysix undergraduates from a variety of institutions. Renn uses an innovative ecology model to examine campus peer cultures and documents five patterns of multiracial identity that illustrate possibilities for integrating notions of identity construction (and deconstruction) with the highly salient nature of race in higher education. One of the most ambitious scholarly attempts to date to portray the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students, the book also discusses implications for higher education practice, policy, theory, and research.Author Biography: Kristen A. Renn is Assistant Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University.
Ch. 1The context of mixed race students in American higher education1Ch. 2The ecology of multiracial identity on campus - an analytic framework and research design27Ch. 3Patterns of multiracial identity among college students67Ch. 4I'm Black - monoracial identity95Ch. 5I'm Asian and Latina - multiple monoracial identities123Ch. 6I'm mixed - multiracial identity155Ch. 7I don't check any boxes - extraracial identity193Ch. 8It depends - situational identity219Ch. 9From patterns to practice - what mixed race identity patterns mean for educational practice243App. ARevisions to the standards for the classification of federal data on race and ethnicity259App. BSummary of study participants261App. CInterview and focus group protocols267
