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Concepts, theories, and findings of race and racial identity development were reviewed and concep... more Concepts, theories, and findings of race and racial identity development were reviewed and conceptualized into a single
model based on principles of complexity and chaos. This article proposes race can be understood as a complex adaptive
system and conceptualized as an attractor landscape. In this model, trajectories represent racial identity development or
progression through an attractor landscape comprised of racial categories. Although this works well as a conceptual model,
the modeling of racial identity development within an attractor landscape is affected by practical constraints related to data
collection and many of the same limitations of existing racial identity development theories. The proposed model also creates
additional challenges because of its interdisciplinary nature.
Concepts, theories, and findings of race and racial identity development were reviewed and concep... more Concepts, theories, and findings of race and racial identity development were reviewed and conceptualized into a single
model based on principles of complexity and chaos. This article proposes race can be understood as a complex adaptive
system and conceptualized as an attractor landscape. In this model, trajectories represent racial identity development or
progression through an attractor landscape comprised of racial categories. Although this works well as a conceptual model,
the modeling of racial identity development within an attractor landscape is affected by practical constraints related to data
collection and many of the same limitations of existing racial identity development theories. The proposed model also creates
additional challenges because of its interdisciplinary nature.