Leaning on the framework of Critical Race and Whiteness Theory, this qualitative study draws on semi-structured interviews with second-generation Mexican Americans and White Americans to offer a yet untaken perspective on the fragmented nature of identity. It also sheds light on the ways racism and interracial relationships shape individuals’ notions of race and privilege. The study’s findings indicate that Mexicans perceive themselves as a distinct racial group situated in a “third space,” marked by a dialectic between externally ascribed and internally attributed racial identity categories. White individuals use color and power-evasion strategies to avoid cognizance of their own racial identities. However, their interracial relationships provide a meaningful premise altering the ways they perceive notions of race and White privilege. Shifts in White individuals’ perspectives occur in relation to heightened race consciousness, acknowledging White privilege, and racial inequality and includes behavioral changes resulting from their interactions with their significant others.

Although the number of black/white marriages has significantly increased since the 1970s, interracial marriage is far more common between whites and members of other minority groups, making black/white pairing still rare (Carolyn, Sitawa, & Murray, 2013). As Rockquemore and Brunsma (2001) argued, blacks and whites continue to be the two groups with the most spatial separation, the greatest social distance, and the strongest taboos against interracial marriage. In this qualitative study, common themes will be analyzed to contribute to literature regarding black/white interracial romantic relationships. The research question guiding this exploratory qualitative study will be to explore how black/white couples describe their experience and what these pairings reveal about black/white race relations presently. Grounding the research in the bioecological theory, this study allows for an intimate portrayal of the two races as they navigate interacting systems.

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This study investigated the communication experiences of adoptive parents of children transracially adopted from Vietnam. Though adoption has been extensively studied in communication research, transracial adoptions involving children from Vietnam has not. Thus, this study examined adoptive parent communication experiences using dialectic theory and relational dialectics. By examining adoptive parents’ communication with their adopted child and others, we can determine tensions that occur in different communication experiences. Data were collected through eight qualitative in-depth interviews conducted with adoptive parents of children from Vietnam. Openness with both strangers and the adopted child(ren) and preservation of key aspects of the adopted children’s original culture emerged as themes in adoptive parent communication. Theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.

This study examined how racism and racial tensions potentially threatened the face needs of Black and White interracial couples. Specifically, this study investigated the benefit of family approval of one's interracial relationship. Couples use of corrective face work in response to prejudice was also examined. This research used a qualitative, interpretive method to gather and analyze data from 14 personal interviews. The interview schedule enabled interviewees to use storytelling to share their experience of being in a Black and White interracial relationship. Interviewees were asked questions surrounding their experience as the partner in an interracial relationship. Couples shared how they told their family that their romantic partner was a different race and shared how they encountered prejudice when they are out in public. Further, they spoke about how people stare at them and make comments about their interracial relationship. The data underwent a thematic analysis (Owen, 1984) where I reviewed the data and searched for themes that were recurrent and repeated by interviewees. There were several themes that emerged. First, the very presence of racial tensions and racism affects interracial couples. Second, family support seemed to mitigate threats to couples' positive and negative faces and enabled couples to engage in open and honest dialogue with their family and their significant other. Finally, even couples with family support, engaged in corrective face work to respond to the face threats posed by racism and racial tensions.

The portrayed, stereotypical sexuality of the Black man in pornography is nothing short of extraordinary when it comes to stamina, skill and performance. The stereotype of the “Big Black Cock” and its impact on sexual partners is widely known by consumers of pornography but what impact does the depiction of it have on Black men and their sexual performances in real life? This thesis aims to examine, through a quantitative approach, if and how the tendency towards conforming to the stereotype of the “Big Black Cock”, makes an impact on the sex life of the participant and if it also brings about a perception of a societal expectation of being attracted to White women. It presents and discusses, through the lens of intersectionality, data collected from an online, anonymous survey directed at heterosexual, self-identifying Black men that was open for participation during late 2021 and early 2022. 84 participants in total answered the survey and after a first screening was made in accordance with the demarcations of this thesis, 72 participants remained ranging in age between 20 and 47 years old with an average of 31,57 years old. 53,5% of the respondents stated that they live in Africa, 39,4% stated Europe and 7% in other areas which included countries like India, USA and Cuba. The results show that a higher tendency towards identifying with the stereotype, correlates with the perception of a strong, sexual performance in real life as well as with experiencing societal expectations of being sexually attracted to White women. The conclusion of this thesis is therefore that although the stereotype is problematic in many ways, it serves as empowering for those that identify with it but that more in-depth research is needed to fully understand and dismantle the multi-layered, stereotypical sexuality of “the Black man”.

[pt] Sendo um pai por adoção e um entusiasta do assunto (Moreira, 2020; Pires; Sales, 2020; Costa e Rosetti Ferreira, 2007; Dias et al, 2005), resolvi, nesta pesquisa, trazer à tona duas vertentes importantes a respeito dessa temática: a adoção de crianças mais velhas e de adolescentes (Vargas, 1998; Jubé, 2018; Souza, 2012) e a adoção inter-racial (Espíndola, 2020). Desde que comecei minhas leituras a respeito dos pressupostos teóricos da Linguística Aplicada Crítica e do seu interesse em se debruçar sobre os fenômenos da vida social (Moita Lopes, 2006), passei a procurar diálogos entre meu tema e essa área de pesquisa a fim de – através de experiências vividas pela minha família e por mais duas famílias amigas – começar a dar corpo a meu trabalho. Assim, esta tese tem por entender que emoções emergem em narrativas dos pais de crianças mais velhas e de adolescentes negros adotados e que significam certas experiências de vida enquanto situações de racismo. Além disso, busquei analisar as (co)construções dessas emoções como processos avaliativos (Cortazi; Jim, 2001; Nóbrega, 2009) que podem ocorrer nas narrativas para o entendimento e para a reflexão crítica acerca do racismo, investigando como esses pais lidam com os estigmas (Goffman, 2004) com que a sociedade marca seus filhos e refletindo sobre sua posição como pessoas que fazem parte de uma sociedade racista e como detentores dos privilégios advindos da branquitude (Bento, 2002; Schucman, 2012). Alinhado ao paradigma qualitativo de pesquisa (Denzin; Lincoln, 2006) e à pesquisa do praticante (Allwright, 2005), resolvi, ainda, realizar a análise a partir da metodologia de três lâminas de observação (Biar et al.2021), em que observo primeiro a estrutura narrativa; em seguida, o momento em que se narra e, por isso, a interação e a coconstrução (ou não) de sentidos realizadas entre mim e meus parceiros de pesquisa; e por último, os embates discursivos, ou seja, como nossos discursos corroboram ou não outros discursos disseminados em sociedade. Com isso, pude identificar algumas emoções negativas como de insatisfação e de incapacidade por parte dos pais que participaram desta tese acerca não só do racismo sofrido por seus filhos, mas também quando identificaram o quanto essa prática ainda existe neles. A partir de tais entendimentos construídos colaborativamente, vislumbro a possibilidade desta tese ter tido um efeito catalisador pelo qual os praticantes envolvidos e outros praticantes possam repensar seus sentimentos e práticas a respeito do antirracismo com vistas à revisão de seus comportamentos tanto em família, diante dos filhos que adotaram, quanto em sociedade. / [en] As an adoptive father and an enthusiast of this subject (Moreira, 2020; Pires; Sales, 2020; Costa and Rosetti Ferreira, 2007; Dias et al, 2005), I decided, in this research, to bring to light two important aspects regarding this context: the adoption of older children and adolescents (Vargas, 1998; Jubé, 2018; Souza, 2012) and the interracial adoption (Espíndola, 2020). Since I began reading about the theoretical assumptions of Applied Linguistics and about its interest in looking into the phenomena of social life (Moita Lopes, 2006), I started looking for conncetions between my theme and this area of research in order to – through experiences lived by my family and by two other close families – construct my work. Thus, this thesis has the general objective of understanding, through the promotion of exploratory conversations (Moraes Bezerra, 2007; Nunes, 2017), the emotions (Barcelos, 2013; Maturana, 2001; Zembylas, 2014) that emerge in the narratives of white parents of black older children and adolescents about situations of racism that their children go through or have been through. Furthermore, I chose to analyze the (co)constructions of these emotions as evaluative processes (Cortazi; Jim, 2001; Nóbrega, 2009) that can appear in narratives to generate understandings and critical reflections about racism, investigating how these parents deal with the stigmas (Goffman, 2004) their children suffer and reflecting about their position as people who are part of a racist society and as holders of privileges from whiteness (Bento, 2002; Schucman, 2012). Aligned with the qualitative research paradigm (Denzin; Lincoln, 2006) and with practitioner research (Allwright, 2005), I also decided to carry out the analysis using the three-layer observation methodology (Biar et al.,2021), in which I first observe the narrative structure; then, the moment of narration, the interaction and the co-construction (or not) of meanings produced by me and my research collaborators; and finally the discursive clashes, that is, how our discourses corroborate or not other discourses disseminated in society. In doing so, I was able to identify some negative emotions such as dissatisfaction and incapacity by the parents who participated in this thesis regarding not only the racism suffered by their children but also the moments when they identified the extent to which this practice still exists in them. Based on such collaboratively constructed understandings, I envisage the possibility of this thesis having had a catalytic effect through which the practitioners involved and other practitioners come to rethink their feelings and practices regarding anti-racism to review their behavior both within the family and towards their adopted children, as well as in society at large.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

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本研究主要透過質化研究深度訪談法，描繪越南籍女性配偶在台生活使用媒體行為與對本地文化適應情況。訪談結果歸納整理出以下若干：第一、受訪者使用媒體的時間與平日所持家務的繁重程度及與夫家的態度有關。第二、受訪者夫家對其媒體使用並未加以過份干涉。第三、受訪者使用屬於母國媒體產品主要為舒緩思鄉情緒，消除對環境的不確定疑慮。第四、受訪者期望台灣媒體對母國之報導多採正面態度。 / The study mainly described the behavior of mass-media-using and cultural adaption among Vietnamese women living in Taiwan through interracial marriage. In-depth interview was conducted in this study. The findings of research were showed as follows: 1.There are relationship among mass-media-using time and daily household tasks and the allowing from husband’s family toward the interviewers. 2.It was not overly to interfere with interviewers using mass media by husband’s family. 3.The interviewers used mass-media products at husband’s family to ease homesickness and reduce uncertainty on environment about their living. 4.The interviewers wish that Taiwan’s media reported positive things about Vietnam as could as possible.