Dissertation Research: Ethnic Identity Formation in a Mixed Heritage Population

论文研究：混合遗产人群中的种族认同形成

• 批准号: 9507672
• 负责人: Carol Smith
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-15 至 1996-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9507672&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Ethnic; Identity; Formation

This dissertation project involves the research of a cultural anthropology student from the University of California-Davis. The project involves ethnographic interviews with a group of mixed-heritage Cherokee Native Americans in Oklahoma. The student will administer a demographic survey to about 300 Cherokee tribal members in Tulsa and in Tahlequah, the political center of the Cherokee nation. Then a sample of pictures of mixed-race faces blending `white`, `black` and `red` phenotypes, along with brief hypothetical biographies will be used as stimuli for in-depth interviews to probe for biases and decision rules used by Cherokee to attribute Indian and non-Indian identity. In addition the student will collect oral histories from traditional community leaders, study published media about Cherokee identity and relations with `mixed-bloods`, and will conduct at least 50 open-ended, in-depth interviews with different sub-types of Cherokee identities on mixed heritage identity formation. This research is important because it will clarify the issues seen by Native Americans in attributing identity as tribal members. In a society where the national government insists on clear criteria for inclusion into Native populations, but where the lived history and genealogy of individuals is extremely diverse, the advance in understanding of how different types of people use racial and ethnic attributions will be valuable information for understanding how and why people react to policies.

本论文是一位来自加州大学戴维斯分校的文化人类学学生的研究。 该项目包括对俄克拉荷马州的一群混血切罗基土著美国人进行人种学采访。 这名学生将对塔尔萨和切罗基民族的政治中心Tahlequah的大约300名切罗基部落成员进行人口调查。 然后，一个样本的混合种族的面孔混合'白色'，'黑色'和'红色'的表型，沿着简短的假设传记的图片将被用来作为刺激的深入采访，以探讨偏见和决策规则所使用的切罗基属性印度和非印度的身份。 此外，学生将收集传统社区领袖的口述历史，研究有关切罗基身份和与“混血”关系的出版媒体，并将与混合遗产身份形成的切罗基身份的不同子类型进行至少50次开放式深入访谈。 这项研究很重要，因为它将澄清美洲原住民在将身份归因为部落成员时所看到的问题。 在一个社会中，国家政府坚持明确的标准纳入原住民人口，但个人的生活历史和家谱是非常多样化的，在了解不同类型的人如何使用种族和民族属性的进步将是有价值的信息，了解人们如何以及为什么对政策作出反应。