From:

Root, M.P.P. (1996). A significant frontier. In M.P.P. Root (Ed.), The multicultural
experience: Racial borders as the new frontier (pp. xiii-xxviii). Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage.

Biracial Identity Development Model

Acceptance of the Identity Society Assigns

In this strategy stage, there may be a passive resolution that stems from an
oppressive external process only One will tend to identify with the ethnic identity
with which society views the family of the individual, there by extending that to
the individual. The individual may be perceived differently, and assigned a
different racial identity, depending upon geographical location.

Identification With Both Racial Groups

Can be seen as positive, especially if the individuals personality remains similar
across groups, and they feel privileged in both groups. May develop an
awareness of being both similar in different compared to those persons around
them. This uniqueness could be a positive or an estrangement. Again,
geographical location may play a role in this development.

Identification with a Single Racial Group

The individual chooses to identify with a particular racial/ethnic group, regardless
of this is the identity assumed by siblings, assigned by Society, or matching their
racial features.

Identification as a New Racial Group

The individual may feel a strong kinship with other biracial persons, and identify
as a new racial category. This individual may move fluidly between racial groups,
but views themselves apart from the reference groups without feeling marginal,
because they have generated a new reference group.

Helpful Web Sites

Biracial Identity development in children

http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu/final.paper.pub/_pwfsfp/00000085.htm

Facts Psychologists Know

www.psc.uc.edu/SH/PDF/SH_Biracial%20Identity.pdf

Identity Development in Biracial Youth

http://iggi.unesco.or.kr/web/iggi_docs/06/952492835.pdf