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In Mixed-Race Identities, Dr. Maria P. P. Root demonstrates her approach to working with clients who are experiencing conflicts or distress because of mixed-race identity. Dr. Root's multiculturally sensitive approach seeks to strengthen or find a client's own voice and validate the client's experiences and ways of belonging in the world.
In this session, Dr. Root works with a young woman in her mid-20s whose mother is African and whose father is Latino. Dr. Root helps her client to look at various effects that her mixed-race heritage has had on her life. She illuminates the various struggles surrounding the client's identity as well as her resilience and the need for continued vigilance in discerning how society's "race rules" are causing much of the stress she is experiencing.
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Dr. Root's therapeutic orientations blend multicultural sensitivities with feminist perspectives. This means that she helps people strengthen or find their own voice and validate their experiences, taking into account historical events that have affected their family, their ethnic or racial group, gendered experience, or way of belonging and identifying in this world.
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born in Manila, Philippines, grew up in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the University of California at Riverside in 1977 with degrees in psychology and sociology. She subsequently attended Claremont University in Claremont, California receiving her Master's degree in cognitive psychology in 1979. She completed her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1983 with an emphasis in minority mental health.
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- Root, M. P. P. (1990). Resolving "other" status: Biracial identity development. In L. Brown & M. P. P. Root (Eds.), Complexity and diversity in feminist theory and therapy (pp. 191–211). New York: Haworth Press.
- Root, M. P. P. (Ed.). (1992). Racially mixed people in America. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
- Root, M. P. P. (1994). Mixed race women. In L. Comas-Diaz & B. Green (Eds.), Women of color and mental health: The healing tapestry (pp. 455–478). New York: Guilford Press.
- Root, M. P. P. (1996). A Bill of Rights for racially mixed people. In M. P. P. Root (Ed.), Racially mixed people in the new millennium. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
- Root, M. P. P. (1996). (Ed.). The multiracial experience: Racial borders as the new frontier. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Root, M. P. P. (1997). Mixed race women. In N. Zack (Ed.), Sex/race. New York: Routledge.
- Root, M. P. P. (1997). Multiracial Asians: Models of ethnic identity. Amerasia Journal, 23 (1), 29–41.
- Root, M. P. P. (1998). Amerasians. In L. C. Lee & N. W. Zane (Eds.), Asian American psychology handbook. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
- Root, M. P. P. (1998). Preliminary findings from the biracial sibling project. Cultural Diversity and Mental Health, 4, 237–247.
- Root, M. P. P. (1999). The biracial Baby Boom: Understanding ecological constructions of racial identity in the 21st century. In R. H. Sheets & E. R. Hollins (Eds.), Racial and Ethnic Identity in School Practices: Aspects of human development (pp. 67–90). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Root, M. P. P. (2001). Love's revolution: Racial intermarriage. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
- Root, M. P. P. (2001). A Bill of Rights for racially mixed people. In P. Essed & D. Goldberg (Eds.), Race critical theories: Text and context (pp. 355–368). New York: Blackwell Publishers.
- Root, M. P. P. (2003). Five mixed race identities: From relic to revolution. In L. I. Winters & H. Debose (Eds.), New faces in a changing America: Multiracial identity in the 21st century (pp. 3–20). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Root, M. P. P. (2004). From exotic to a dime a dozen. In A. Gillem & C. Thompson (Eds.), Biracial women in therapy: Between the rock of gender and the hard place of race (pp. 19–31). New York: Haworth Press.
- Root, M. P. P. (2004). Multiracial families and children: Implications for educational research and practice. In J. A. Banks & C. A. McGee Banks (Eds.), Handbook of research on multicultural education (2nd ed., pp. 110–124). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- Root, M. P. P., & Kelley, M. (Eds.). (2003). The multiracial child resource book. Seattle, WA: Mavin Foundation.
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