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Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 65, No. 1, 2009, pp. 13--34 Racing to Theory or Retheorizing Race? Understanding the Struggle to Build a Multiracial Identity Theory Kerry Ann Rockquemore∗ University of Illinois at Chicago David L.

Brunsma and Daniel J. Delgado University of Missouri-Columbia Empirical research on the growing multiracial population in the United States has focused largely on the documentation of racial identification, analysis of psychological adjustment, and understanding the broader political consequences of mixed-race identification.

Efforts toward theory construction on multiracial identity development, however, have been largely disconnected from empirical data, mired in disciplinary debates, and bound by historically specific assumptions about race and racial group membership.

This study provides a critical overview of multiracial identity development theori