Landscape of Multiracial Experiences

Diana T. Sanchez is currently an assistant professor in the Psychology Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Her research interests generally focus on how gender and racial norms influence behavior, affect, and perception.Margaret Shih is an Associate Professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Prior to arriving at UCLA, she was a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She studies how individuals negotiate and manage multiple social identities.

• OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION When Race Becomes Even More Complex: Toward Understanding the Landscape of Multiracial Identity and Experiences, Margaret Shih and Diana T. SanchezMULTIRACIAL IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONRacing to Theory or Retheorizing Race? Understanding the Struggle to Build a Multiracial Identity Theory, Kerry Ann Rockquemore, David L. Brunsma, and Daniel J. DelgadoThe Interpretation of Multiracial Status and its Relation to Social Engagement and Psychological Well-Being, Kevin R. Binning, Miguel M. Unzueta, Yuen J. Huo, and Ludwin E. MolinaMultiracial Identity Integration: Perceptions of Conflict and Distance among Multiracial Individuals , Chi-Ying Cheng and Fiona LeeMULTIRACIAL PEOPLE’S VIEWS OF RACEMultiracial Faces: How Categorization Affects Memory at the Boundaries of Race, Kristin Pauker and Nalini AmbadyExploring Multiracial Individuals’ Comfort with Intimate Interracial Relationships, Courtney M. Bonam and Margaret ShihPERCEPTIONSANDREPRESENTATIONS OFMULTIRACIAL PEOPLEPolicing the Borderlands: White-and Black-American Newspaper Perceptions of Multiracial Heritage and the Idea of Race, 1996–2006, Michael C. ThorntonTo Disclose or Not to Disclose Biracial Identity: The Effect of Biracial Disclosure on Perceiver Evaluations and Target Responses, Diana T. Sanchez and Courtney M. BonamPUBLICPOLICIESANDTHEIRCONSEQUENCESFORMULTIRACIAL PEOPLEIs Valuing Equality Enough? Equality Values, Allophilia, and Social Policy Support for Multiracial Individuals, Todd L. Pittinsky and R. Matthew MontoyaEducational Policy, Politics, and Mixed Heritage Students in the United States, Kristen A. RennMy Choice, Your Categories: The Denial of Multiracial Identities, Sarah S. M. Townsend, Hazel R. Markus, and Hilary B. BergsiekerCOMMENTARYPlus ¸ca Change...? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations in the United States, Frank D. Bean and Jennifer Lee2008 KURT LEWIN AWARD ADDRESSIntroduction to Mark Snyder’s Lewin Award Address, Louis A. PennerIn the Footsteps of Kurt Lewin: Practical Theorizing, Action Research, and the Psychology of Social Action, Mark Snyder