This document provides information about an information session on mixed race identity development. The session includes presentations from experts on campus culture and student identities, ecological influences on identity development, and a comedic performance. Attendees will break into groups to discuss curriculum and programs. The session aims to make attendees experts on theories of mixed race identity patterns that can include identifying with one race, multiple races, or no single race.

1. Info session slide
FACES OF RACES
INFORMATION SESSION
2012 CONFERENCE
SUCCESS UNIVERSITY
Lindsy Donahue
Judy Juarez
Please take a
seat in your
assigned group

2. Who is here?
MIXED RACE STUDENT FACULTY
STUDENTS LEADERS

3. let’s meet.

4. We want you to be the experts.

5. Kristen Renn’s Ecological Theory of
Mixed-Race Identity Development

6. Ecological Identity
Influences Patterns

7. Bronfenbrenner’s (PPCT) Model
Person
Process
Context
Time

8. Person
Cultural Knowledge

9. Process
They are progressively more
complex
They occur in the setting containing the
developing individual
Processes are ongoing,
enduring forms
They are reciprocal
They involve interactions between
an evolving person and other
people, or symbols

10. Context
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model
MACROSYSTEM
MESOSYSTEM
MICROSYSTEM
EXOSYSTEM
Image from: http://www.c4eo.org.uk/

11. Time
CHRONOSYSTEM
Personal Historical

12. Ecological Identity
Influences Patterns

13. IDENTITY PATTERNS
A single identity may be neither Renn (2004) described five fluid and
possible nor desirable for mixed-
race students. non-exclusive “identity patterns” all
of which she viewed as healthy.
Multiple
Monoracial
Monoracial
Multiracial Extraracial
Situational
All but eight of the fifty-six students interviewed identified in more than one way.

14. MONORACIAL IDENTITY [I’m Black]
48%
The individual
chooses one of his
or her heritage
backgrounds to
identify with.
Juan

15. MULTIPLE MONORACIAL IDENTITY
48% [I’m Asian and Latina]
Kimlien
Kimlien

16. MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY
89%
[I’m Mixed]
The individual elects an
identity that is neither one
heritage nor another, but
of a distinct
“multicultural” group on
par with other racial
categories.
Jack

17. EXTRARACIAL IDENTITY
None of the students who choose this
identity choose this one solely. [I don’t Check Any Boxes]
25%
Student holds an
extraracial identity by
deconstructing race or
opting out of
identification with the
U.S. racial categories.
Marisa

18. Kate
SITUATIONAL IDENTITY
The ability to read contexts
and construct racial identity
in relation to specific
contexts is a highly evolved
skill requiring emotional
maturity and cognitive
complexity (Renn, 2004).
61%
[It Depends]

19. FACES OF RACES 2012
FACESOFRACES

20. Opening Session
AGENDA REVIEW:
Second Session
Comedic Act
With Dr. Kristen With Dr. Vivica Anjela Johnson
Renn Johnson Mexican/Native
Campus Culture Ecological American
and Student Influences actress/comedian
Identities

21. RESOURCES:
Project Race
Hapa Project
Mixed Race Project
The Race Card
Project

23. BREAKOUT SESSION:
Curriculum
Programs
Group 1 Group 2
Group 3 Group 4
Group 5 Group 6

36. Info session slide
FACES OF RACES
INFORMATION SESSION
2012 CONFERENCE
SUCCESS UNIVERSITY
Lindsy Donahue
Judy Juarez
Thank-you!

37. Q&A