Reconstituting Racial Histories and Identities: The Narratives of Interracial Couples

Killian, Kyle D.

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2001.tb01137.x

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“…However, as families grow more multicultural, interfaith, and international, intergroup issues are going to appear as more prominent concerns (Killian, 2001). Moreover, intergroup scholars have begun to recognize that communication within relational units, such as the family, offers unique possibilities COMMUNICATION AND GROUP SALIENCE for their own work-particularly in terms of exploiting some of the inherent identity connections within the family for the benefit of changing intergroup attitudes (Anderson et al, 2005).…”

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confidence: 97%

The Family and Communication Dynamics of Group Salience

Harwood¹,

Raman²,

Hewstone³

2006

Journal of Family Communication

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

The Family and Communication Dynamics of Group Salience

Harwood¹,

Raman²,

Hewstone³

2006

Journal of Family Communication

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“…Killian (2001) also found that in some instances, friends of interracial couples would even go so far as to tell a person not to go through with the wedding on the wedding day. Social support potentially influences both the amount of conflict and the conflict strategies of members of interracial couples, with such individuals experiencing less social support than members of same-race couples.…”

Section: Conflict and The Microsystemmentioning

confidence: 93%

A bioecological view of interracial/same-race couple conflict

MacNeil

Adamsons

2014

International Journal of Conflict Management

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Purpose -The purpose if this study is to examine differences in conflict management strategies, relational satisfaction and social support of individuals in same-race and interracial relationships. Additionally, the authors examined associations between self-reported and observed measures of conflict management strategies. Design/methodology/approach -The current study used Bronfenbrenner's (2005) bioecological theory as an organizing framework. Twenty individuals in interracial and same-race relationships were recruited from a large Northeastern US university. Self-report and observational measures of conflict management strategies were obtained as were individuals' self-reported levels of relational satisfaction and social support. Findings -Results indicated a few differences in conflict management strategies between individuals in same-race and interracial dyads and no differences in social support or satisfaction. Observational measures of conflict management were largely uncorrelated with their corresponding self-report measures.Research limitations/implications -The current sample was small and consisted of students from a predominately White region of the country; thus generalizability and statistical power are limited. However, the results suggest ways interracial and same-race dyads might manage conflict differently as well as how self-reported and observational methods might differ in terms of the results obtained. Originality/value -Interracial couple relationship processes are largely unexplored, but are important to study. The current findings further suggest that self-report and observational methods should be combined to more fully portray the conflict management strategies of individuals in interracial and same-race relationships.

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“…Then, the researcher can look at some preliminary themes and bring the family together to investigate these themes further, or ask the family to process questions as a unit to see if new meaning arises through interaction. Killian (2001) interviewed interracial spouses both individually and together with the purpose of allowing individual spouses to share feelings that might not have been expressed in the presence of the other partner. One disadvantage to this approach is the time needed to conduct three or more interviews.…”

Section: Individual and Couple/family Interviewsmentioning

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“…The person involved in the testing was given the choice of whether to be interviewed individually or with the family together, and all chose with their family. Killian (2001Killian ( , 2002 used a mixed approach with couples who were interviewed separately and together. Killian examined how couples construct narratives about their racial histories and identities.…”

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Qualitative Research in Marriage and Family Therapy: Who is in the Interview?

Beitin

2007

Contemp Fam Ther

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Qualitative interviews are a rich means of gathering information from families. The qualitative interviewer has a choice of interviewing individual family members, multiple family members at the same time, or a combination. The configuration of interviewees is a choice guided by the epistemology of the researcher, research aims, and questions. This article reviews the literature on interviewing different configurations of family members. A content analysis was conducted on articles in the marriage and family therapy literature from 1990 to 2005. Over half of the articles were conducted with individual family members separate from their families. This finding is discussed in the context of the decision regarding whom to interview.

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Reconstituting Racial Histories and Identities: The Narratives of Interracial Couples

Cited by 92 publications

References 15 publications

The Family and Communication Dynamics of Group Salience

The Family and Communication Dynamics of Group Salience

A bioecological view of interracial/same-race couple conflict

Qualitative Research in Marriage and Family Therapy: Who is in the Interview?

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