Overall attitudes, beliefs, and values have been shown to effect how individuals evaluate and process information. This knowledge is important and relevant to the practice of social work. Social workers are expected to put their attitudes, values, and perceptions aside when working with their clients. Attitudes are effecting processing and evaluation of events, therefore, it is imortant to understand the possible implications of workers perceptions and attitudes. Highly embedded attitudes toward transracial adoption, will influenceSocial workers behavior.

Interracial couples have different experiences compared to their intraracial counterparts. Interracial couples and their relationships (particularly their marriages) have been studied to see whether there are any effects on the relationship due to the couple’s inherent differences. However, the literature heavily focuses on interracial marriages while only touching on interracial relationships in general, with a primary focus on interracial couples of all kinds. With the tension between White and Black Americans over the years, one can wonder if there would be any noticeable differences within Black/White interracial couples with regard to racial identification and experienced discrimination due to the Black-White racial disparity. This study tested whether these factors contribute to the overall relationship satisfaction in Black/White interracial couples. Data were collected via MTurk and participants completed three assessments to capture how racial identity and experienced discrimination impact their relationship. Racial identity was assessed using Worrell, Mendoza, and Wang’s (2019) Cross Ethnic-racial Identity Scale- Adult (CERIS-A); perceived racial discrimination was assessed Conger’s (2006) revised version of Landrine et al.’s (2006) General Ethnic Discrimination Scale; and relationship satisfaction was assessed using Funk and Rogge’s (2007) Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI-16). It was predicted that experienced discrimination and racial identity would impact the relationship satisfaction of Black-White interracial couples. The results showed that experienced discrimination did significantly impact relationship satisfaction and racial identity, however, racial identity did not significantly impact relationship satisfaction in Black-White interracial couples. The lack of research on the CERIS-A’s validity when interacting with other constructs, a missing question on the CSI-16, and not accounting for biracial participants and their experiences with racial identity development are all limitations that should be considered when reviewing the results. Clinicians can use the information from this study to assist clients in having more conversations about their experiences of discrimination with one another and having them create their own meanings around interracial dating and racial identity.

Life story methods were used to explore the contextual factors that influenced the experiences and identity formation of seven Native American adults who were transracially adopted prior to the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. These methods provided a deeper understanding of how these individuals have integrated their adoption experiences into their evolving sense of self. The life story methodology offered a way to acknowledge and validate participants' life experiences and allowed for the collection of rich information from the perspectives of the adoptees. The life story interviews were structured to gather information on the influence of one's adoptive family and cultural, social, and educational experiences on participants' developing sense of self. Even though an interview guide was developed for use in the study, each story uniquely unfolded in a manner the participant was comfortable sharing. The study examined the life stories for patterns or emerging themes related to identity development at different points in the narrators' life cycles in order to develop an aggregate account of the contextual factors influencing identity formation as well as a collective understanding of sense of self. The study identified 12 contextual factors that have both positively and negatively influenced identity development among the participants throughout their lifespan. These factors are: (1) adoptive family; (2) community; (3) educational experiences; (4) religion/spirituality; (5) travel; (6) exposure to cultural experiences; (7) employment; (8) friendships; (9) peer groups; (10) military; (11) societal messages, and (12) reconnection to tribal heritage. Overall, findings from this study suggest that the majority of participants have developed strong Native American, multi-cultural, and/or bi-cultural identities that incorporate their various experiences as transracial adoptees. Practice considerations for transracial adoptees as well as adoptive parents are suggested. Policy implications relating to granting access to original birth and/or adoption related records are presented. Finally, future research recommendations are offered specific to Native American transracial adoptees, their biological families, and tribal communities from which they adopted. While the practice, policy, and research recommendations are specific to Native American transracial adoptees, the recommendations may have broader implications to a wider population of adoptees in general.

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[pt] Ao se observar o contexto da atenção à saúde das mulheres negras, percebe-se que ainda predominam profissionais brancos e brancas na medicina, provenientes das elites econômicas, apesar dos avanços nas políticas públicas de inclusão social no Brasil desde os anos 2000. Considerando esse cenário, nesta pesquisa, analisamos narrativas contadas por pacientes negras em consultas com médicas brancas, a fim de gerar inteligibilidades sobre a construção desses eventos sociais, a partir de uma abordagem interseccional. A metodologia analítica empregada é qualitativa e interpretativista. Além disso, o aporte teórico da sociolinguística interacional e da análise de narrativas está em diálogo com os estudos da linguística aplicada, da branquitude crítica e do racismo estrutural à brasileira na clínica médica e nas pesquisas acadêmicas. As análises indicam que existem diferentes formas de interagir nos encontros observados, umas mais empáticas que as outras, com dimensões de escuta que vão desde o foco na própria agenda de consulta (em detrimento das queixas narradas pela paciente), até a abertura à consideração de problemas familiares como partes da investigação clínica. A partir disso, é possível observar como o racismo estrutural está presente na organização das interações no contexto brasileiro contemporâneo, mesmo aquelas em que não verificamos a ocorrência de ofensas racistas explícitas. Por meio da análise, é possível perceber, ainda, que o racismo estrutural pode trazer impactos negativos às interações médico-paciente inter-raciais, como a infantilização de pacientes negras e o menosprezo às suas queixas e colocações circunstanciais. Em vista disso, as aplicações da pesquisa têm se direcionado rumo à recomendação de letramento racial crítico para profissionais de saúde, em geral, e da medicina, em particular. / [en] When we observe the context of healthcare for black women, it is clear that white male and white female professionals still predominate in the field of medicine and that the majority of them come from economic elites, despite advances in public policies for social inclusion in Brazil since the early 2000s. In this research we have analyzed narratives told by female black patients in medical appointments with female white doctors, in order to generate intelligibility about the construction of these social events from an intersectional approach. The methodology of the research is qualitative and interpretive. In addition, we mobilize theories of interactional sociolinguistics and narrative analysis in dialogue through the studies of applied linguistics, critical whiteness, and structural Brazilian racism both in medical practice and in academic researches. The analyzes indicate that there are different ways of interacting during the social meetings that we have observed, some more empathetic than others, with listening dimensions that range from focusing on the medical appointment agenda itself—to the detriment of the complaints narrated by the patient—to openness in considering family issues as part of clinical investigation. From this, it is possible to observe how structural racism organizes interactions in the contemporary Brazilian context, even those in which we do not see the occurrence of explicit racist offenses. Through the analysis, it is also possible to perceive that structural racism can have negative impacts on interracial physician-patient interactions, such as the infantilization of black patients and the disregard for their complaints and circumstantial statements. In view of this, we have directed the research applications towards the recommendation of critical racial literacy for health professionals, in general, and medical practitioners, in particular.

Autoscopy is a poetry collection that constellates together the speaker's ancestral experience of Jewish diaspora and genocide, the ongoing oppression and genocide of Palestinians, and the anti-Black racism that led to the police-murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In all, the speaker is at once close and far from what they witness, both personally impacted and implicated by their witnessing. In documentary, translation, prayer, elegiac, confessional, and experimental modes, these poems locate the possibility and need for a reimagined mode of kinship, using diasporic and queer desire as a means of reparation. / Master of Fine Arts / Autoscopy is a poetry collection.

The phenomenon of interracial couples who are also parents is on the increase in South Africa, since one in every four marriages is interracial. An empirical study was undertaken to conduct applied, exploratory, descriptive, evidence-based research to describe the perspectives of interracial parents as related to Gestalt Theory, parenting challenges and strategies towards a sense of self and cultural identity of their children. A qualitative approach utilizing an open ended questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with six interracial parent couples was transcribed and analysed. The study concluded that interracial parent couples’, in respect of dealing with societal-non-acceptance of themselves and their “mixed” children, utilize several strategies including avoidance and focusing on the positive; that certain aspects play a vital role in the formation of their children’s sense of self and cultural identity such as religion or faith and both parental identities.The implication of this research is that despite the challenges there are no marked effects on their children’s identity and that interracial parenting strategies must be sound. / Social Work / M.A. Diac. (Play Therapy)

The phenomenon of interracial couples who are also parents is on the increase in South Africa, since one in every four marriages is interracial. An empirical study was undertaken to conduct applied, exploratory, descriptive, evidence-based research to describe the perspectives of interracial parents as related to Gestalt Theory, parenting challenges and strategies towards a sense of self and cultural identity of their children. A qualitative approach utilizing an open ended questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with six interracial parent couples was transcribed and analysed. The study concluded that interracial parent couples’, in respect of dealing with societal-non-acceptance of themselves and their “mixed” children, utilize several strategies including avoidance and focusing on the positive; that certain aspects play a vital role in the formation of their children’s sense of self and cultural identity such as religion or faith and both parental identities.The implication of this research is that despite the challenges there are no marked effects on their children’s identity and that interracial parenting strategies must be sound. / Social Work / M.A. Diac. (Play Therapy)