biracial individuals identify as how they’re treated, not how they see themselves.

Posted in Excerpts/Quotes on 2012-11-15 18:46Z by Steven

For most of my life, I primarily identified as biracial, multiracial, or mixed, but over the last year, where I’ve encountered more racism and privilege than I have in the 40-something previous years—and that includes 18 years in Virginia—I notice that I’m more likely to identify as Black. This jives with my own dissertation findings that biracial individuals identify as how they’re treated, not how they see themselves.

Johanna Workman, Facebook Post, November 14, 2012. http://www.facebook.com/#!/johanna.workman.96/posts/4746274822162.

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Johanna Workman to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

Posted in Audio, Identity Development/Psychology, Interviews, Live Events, Media Archive, United States on 2011-02-09 05:50Z by Steven

Johanna Workman to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow
Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks)
Episode: #192-Johanna Workman
When: Wednesday, 2011-02-09, 22:00Z (17:00 EST, 16:00 CST, 14:00 PST)

Johanna Workman


Dr. Johanna Workman recently received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Alliant International University, San Diego. She has worked in the mental health field for 20 years in a variety of treatment settings and modalities, including: outpatient psychotherapy, school counseling, inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, and residential substance abuse treatment. Her dissertation study investigated biracial daughter’s perceptions of self-mother relationships and body image. With a Black Caribbean mother, and a White British father, Dr. Workman was born in England and spent her early childhood years there before immigrating to the United States with her family.

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