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Identify and discuss the major issues, themes, needs, and challenges faced by multiracial individuals as presented in this Case Study>>>>>The Carters are a middle class family who live in a predominantly white area. Mrs. Carter is African American, and Mr. Carter is European American. They are concerned as their son James, a junior in high school and honors student, is adopting music, clothing, and behaviors associated with low-SES African-Americans when they have tried to raise him not to identify with those parts of Black culture. In the past month they have experienced conflict with James who has challenged their expectations. They have also noticed that he has smelled of alcohol when returning home from spending the evening at friend's house, and just this week they received a call from one of James' teachers reporting he may fail a class..

1) Identify and discuss the major issues, themes, needs, and challenges faced by multiracial individuals

Answer 1

1) Identify and discuss the major issues, themes, needs, and challenges faced by multiracial individuals

The major issues that are faced by the multiracial individuals are as follows:

- multiracial or bi racial people are those individuals whose parents are from different races. There are many issues that the biracial or Multi racial individuals face. The child is trying to fit in one group and identify which group they belong to.

- the theme given in the case study is the issue that the family is facing where their child is learning attributes that they don’t want him to learn. They are further facing issues that they are having conflicts with their children in asking him not to practice these actions, which is offending to him. The parents are concerned with the fact that he is not getting into correct company.

- he has chosen a group to be with people, and this choice has driven him towRds a company that the parents do not approve of. The parents are concerned as the child is seen to be drinking aLcohol.

- needs are that the parents should be able to talk to the child and explain their expectations to him. The parents are not able communicate to their expectations to their child or what they would want him to be. The look for the sense of belonging pushes him towards one group who he feels identifies more with his sense of identity and this is pushing him to identify with this group. This doesn’t necessarily mean that all of the african American families are of a lowSES, but somehow he feels he has identified with this group. It is necessary to make the parents allow him a sense of belonging, that is hIs real identity, such that he would t get lost in the search.