Strategies for racial identity development: Narratives of black and white women in interracial partner relationships

This exploratory qualitative study used individual interviews and a focus g roup to investigate how women in Black-White interracial heterosexual partn er relationships retrospectively described their racial identity developmen t over the course of the relationships. Racial identify development social constructionist, and feminist theories guided the grounded theory methodolo gy. Participants described a process of restorying constraining narratives of racial identity into empowering racial identities through three types of strategies: blocking strategies, transforming strategies, and generating s trategies.