Some Observations on Identity Problems in Children of Negro-White Marriages |
Some Observations on Identity Problems in Children of Negro-White Marriages
Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
Volume 146, Issue 3 (March 1968)
pages 249-256
Joseph D. Teicher (1912-2000)
University of Southern California School of Medicine
The Los Angeles County General Hospital population includes every case, and, inevitably, many Negro-white families present themselves for service at the hospital’s Child Psychiatry Unit. The problems of the children in these families are directly related to the fact that one parent is Negro and the other Caucasian. Such comments as “Any white woman who marries a Negro man is sick!” and “The children are always a mess!” are common, and yet no systematic research has been done in this area. As some of the unit’s staff began to explore the special problems of the children of Negro-white marriages, they became interested in refining the methods of studying these interracial families. The report that follows presents, in brief, a statement of the problem, a review of the literature, three case histories and a description of the study now in progress.
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