Anita Foeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 643168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Foeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita |
| FAMILY NAME | Foeman |
| SIGNATURE | FOEMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Chester University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Experiences of Misattributed Parentage Communities: Impacts of Discovering New Familial Kinships
Finding out about misattributed parentage experiences often leads to identity shock and new medical histories. Many individuals learn about new genetic family members through direct-to-consumer DNA tests. These individuals’ relationships with their raising families are often upended, while new ones are formed with biological families. The paper reports findings from a survey of 605 individuals from Facebook misattributed parentage experience (MPE…
DNA Ancestry Testing and Racial Discourse in Higher Education: How the (Re)Biologization of Race (Un)Settles Monoracialism for Graduate Students
The recent proliferation of DNA testing in both popular culture and higher education calls to question whether such testing reifies race as a biological construct and, in particular, whether or not it disrupts or reinforces monoracial categorizations. Graduate students, who are often at a point in their educational journeys to further question and critique commonly held ideas, provide a unique lens through which to investigate discourses surround…
Bridging Discussions of Human History: Ancestry DNA and New Roles for Africana Studies
This paper explores how Africana Studies offer the opportunity for a new worldview that may supplant the assumption that Western history is history. It considers how new knowledge of the human migration bodes for the future of Africana Studies. It has the following research questions: (1) Does new ancestry data reveal or clarify African narratives that may have been missing or suppressed?; (2) What heritage do participants over- or under-predict?…
Shifting Winds: Using Ancestry DNA to Explore Multiracial Individuals’ Patterns of Articulating Racial Identity
This study explored how genotype information affects identification narratives of multiracial individuals. Twenty-one multiracial individuals completed individual interviews before and after receiving a DNA analysis to clarify their genetically based racial ancestry. Based on results, this article proposes patterns of articulating racial identity by multiracial individuals. Four patterns extend evolving research in multiracial identification, nam…
Questioning Race: Ancestry DNA and Dialog on Race
Human genetics and racial identity converge pointedly in the family narrative. Until recently, genetics, racial identity, and family narrative were all rather malleable concepts in the public arena. All were presented in anecdotal form for the most part, and were often based on certain social conventions. The interjection of popularly available ancestry DNA data adds an additional piece of information to the discussion of genetics, race, and narr…
Interracial Couples’ Conflict Styles on Educational Issues
This study reports results of a quantitative survey of interracial couples' conflict styles on one specific issue—education. Interracial couples answered a slightly revised version of Putnam-Wilson's Organizational Communication Conflict Instrument to assess conflict styles in dealing with education. The paper has three research questions: Do men and women score differently on self-reported use of conflict styles when dealing with educational iss…
An Intercultural Project Exploring the Relationship among DNA Ancestry Profiles, Family Narrative, and the Social Construction of Race
Anita K. Foeman, An Intercultural Project Exploring the Relationship among DNA Ancestry Profiles, Family Narrative, and the Social Construction of Race, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 81, No. 4, Special Focus Topics: Family/Adolescent Studies with Higher Education Studies in Mathematics and Physical Education (Fall 2012), pp. 307-318
From Miscegenation to Multiculturalism: Perceptions and Stages of Interracial Relationship Development
Our first blueprint for social interaction comes from our family of origin. To a large extent, this blueprint is based on culture (Gudykunst & Ting-Toomey, 1990). We have come to understand how outside influences affect in-group communication (see Foeman & Pressley, 1987; Kochman, 1981; Orbe, 1994; Stanback & Pearce, 1981, for examples of this dynamic in Black-White race relations). However, much investigation still needs to be conducted to under…
Gloria Richardson: Breaking the Mold
In Watzlawick's (1974) book Change, theorist discusses therapeutic approach of paradoxical intervention. The idea behind approach of infusing a system with an unexpected change is to, in effect, blow system and provide an opportunity for traditional configuration to be disturbed, thus creating a window for deep and lasting change. In an examination of civil rights activist Gloria Richardson, this idea comes to mind recurrently. Whereas time after…
Rethinking the Basic Public Speaking Course for African American Students and Other Students of Color
Theresa Nance, Anita Kathy Foeman, Rethinking the Basic Public Speaking Course for African American Students and Other Students of Color, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 448-458
Questioning Race: Ancestry DNA and Dialog on Race
Human genetics and racial identity converge pointedly in the family narrative. Until recently, genetics, racial identity, and family narrative were all rather malleable concepts in the public arena. All were presented in anecdotal form for the most part, and were often based on certain social conventions. The interjection of popularly available ancestry DNA data adds an additional piece of information to the discussion of genetics, race, and narr…
An Intercultural Project Exploring the Relationship among DNA Ancestry Profiles, Family Narrative, and the Social Construction of Race
Anita K. Foeman, An Intercultural Project Exploring the Relationship among DNA Ancestry Profiles, Family Narrative, and the Social Construction of Race, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 81, No. 4, Special Focus Topics: Family/Adolescent Studies with Higher Education Studies in Mathematics and Physical Education (Fall 2012), pp. 307-318
DNA Ancestry Testing and Racial Discourse in Higher Education: How the (Re)Biologization of Race (Un)Settles Monoracialism for Graduate Students
The recent proliferation of DNA testing in both popular culture and higher education calls to question whether such testing reifies race as a biological construct and, in particular, whether or not it disrupts or reinforces monoracial categorizations. Graduate students, who are often at a point in their educational journeys to further question and critique commonly held ideas, provide a unique lens through which to investigate discourses surround…
Bridging Discussions of Human History: Ancestry DNA and New Roles for Africana Studies
This paper explores how Africana Studies offer the opportunity for a new worldview that may supplant the assumption that Western history is history. It considers how new knowledge of the human migration bodes for the future of Africana Studies. It has the following research questions: (1) Does new ancestry data reveal or clarify African narratives that may have been missing or suppressed?; (2) What heritage do participants over- or under-predict?…
Rethinking the Basic Public Speaking Course for African American Students and Other Students of Color
Theresa Nance, Anita Kathy Foeman, Rethinking the Basic Public Speaking Course for African American Students and Other Students of Color, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 448-458
Gloria Richardson: Breaking the Mold
In Watzlawick's (1974) book Change, theorist discusses therapeutic approach of paradoxical intervention. The idea behind approach of infusing a system with an unexpected change is to, in effect, blow system and provide an opportunity for traditional configuration to be disturbed, thus creating a window for deep and lasting change. In an examination of civil rights activist Gloria Richardson, this idea comes to mind recurrently. Whereas time after…
From Miscegenation to Multiculturalism: Perceptions and Stages of Interracial Relationship Development
Our first blueprint for social interaction comes from our family of origin. To a large extent, this blueprint is based on culture (Gudykunst & Ting-Toomey, 1990). We have come to understand how outside influences affect in-group communication (see Foeman & Pressley, 1987; Kochman, 1981; Orbe, 1994; Stanback & Pearce, 1981, for examples of this dynamic in Black-White race relations). However, much investigation still needs to be conducted to under…
An Intercultural Project Exploring the Relationship among DNA Ancestry Profiles, Family Narrative, and the Social Construction of Race
Anita K. Foeman, An Intercultural Project Exploring the Relationship among DNA Ancestry Profiles, Family Narrative, and the Social Construction of Race, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 81, No. 4, Special Focus Topics: Family/Adolescent Studies with Higher Education Studies in Mathematics and Physical Education (Fall 2012), pp. 307-318
Interracial Couples’ Conflict Styles on Educational Issues
This study reports results of a quantitative survey of interracial couples' conflict styles on one specific issue—education. Interracial couples answered a slightly revised version of Putnam-Wilson's Organizational Communication Conflict Instrument to assess conflict styles in dealing with education. The paper has three research questions: Do men and women score differently on self-reported use of conflict styles when dealing with educational iss…
Questioning Race: Ancestry DNA and Dialog on Race
Human genetics and racial identity converge pointedly in the family narrative. Until recently, genetics, racial identity, and family narrative were all rather malleable concepts in the public arena. All were presented in anecdotal form for the most part, and were often based on certain social conventions. The interjection of popularly available ancestry DNA data adds an additional piece of information to the discussion of genetics, race, and narr…
Shifting Winds: Using Ancestry DNA to Explore Multiracial Individuals’ Patterns of Articulating Racial Identity
This study explored how genotype information affects identification narratives of multiracial individuals. Twenty-one multiracial individuals completed individual interviews before and after receiving a DNA analysis to clarify their genetically based racial ancestry. Based on results, this article proposes patterns of articulating racial identity by multiracial individuals. Four patterns extend evolving research in multiracial identification, nam…
Bridging Discussions of Human History: Ancestry DNA and New Roles for Africana Studies
This paper explores how Africana Studies offer the opportunity for a new worldview that may supplant the assumption that Western history is history. It considers how new knowledge of the human migration bodes for the future of Africana Studies. It has the following research questions: (1) Does new ancestry data reveal or clarify African narratives that may have been missing or suppressed?; (2) What heritage do participants over- or under-predict?…
DNA Ancestry Testing and Racial Discourse in Higher Education: How the (Re)Biologization of Race (Un)Settles Monoracialism for Graduate Students
The recent proliferation of DNA testing in both popular culture and higher education calls to question whether such testing reifies race as a biological construct and, in particular, whether or not it disrupts or reinforces monoracial categorizations. Graduate students, who are often at a point in their educational journeys to further question and critique commonly held ideas, provide a unique lens through which to investigate discourses surround…
Experiences of Misattributed Parentage Communities: Impacts of Discovering New Familial Kinships
Finding out about misattributed parentage experiences often leads to identity shock and new medical histories. Many individuals learn about new genetic family members through direct-to-consumer DNA tests. These individuals’ relationships with their raising families are often upended, while new ones are formed with biological families. The paper reports findings from a survey of 605 individuals from Facebook misattributed parentage experience (MPE…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)