FOCUS ON STUDENTS AND STUDENT CULTURE Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and

Despite significant and increasing numbers of biracial and multiracial1 stu-dents, almost nothing is known about their development and interactions in the college environment. This topic has special relevance to higher edu-cation at a time when multiraciality has become a matter of political and popular interest. A political movement of mixed-race people emerged in the last decade, demanding attention to mixed-race students in K-12 edu