What is Racial Identity?
Bradshaw (1992) claims that developing a healthy self-esteem and an integrated sense of self is more complex for the biracial person than the monoracial person. Since healthy identity development is crucial to the formation of a normal personality, the issue of identity of children of mixed heritage is critical (Milan & Keiley, 2000). According to Forde-Marzui (1994), identity grows on the three levels of all human development: • Physical • Psychological • Cultural: The nurturing of self-identity is a prime function of the family. An example of that is that in our society, the developmental needs of Black children are significantly different from those of white children. Black children are taught, from an early age, highly sophisticated coping techniques to deal with racist practices perpetrated by individuals and institutions. Some studies show that only a black family can transmit the emotional and sensitive subtleties of perception and reaction essential for a black child’s survival
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