The Influence of Identity on Multiracial Emerging Adults’ Health and Experiences Seeking Healthcare in the United States: a Qualitative Study

Asking MultiCrit Questions: A Reflexive and Critical Framework to Promote Health Data Equity for the Multiracial Population

“…These patterns suggest greater attention is warranted to investigate the structural forces that maintain such disparities. 27,28 But historically, research on this group has centered on the attributes (e.g., identity formation) that define Multiracial individuals, rather than social and structural patterns of stratification that influence the Multiracial population, leaving gaps in population health knowledge.…”

“…conceptualize race using mutually exclusive categories 62 ; it can look like electronic medical record systems that (in the 2020s, no less) are still not programmed to handle multiple race selections, [64][65][66] monoracially organized student recruitment and retention centers on college campuses, 62,67,68 or peer-reviewed studies that pathologizerather than contextualize-the impact of Multiracial identity on health. 27,28,[69][70][71] Everyday monoracism may manifest as Multiracial microaggressions, which can look like Multiracial adolescents having to defend the "authenticity" of their racial identities to monoracial relatives or peers, 50,[72][73][74] Multiracial people allowing others to view them as monoracial to avoid confusing or drawing unwanted attention, 62 travel security agents flagging parents of Multiracial children as suspected sex traffickers, 75 health care professionals making inappropriate assumptions or comments about a Multiracial patient's racial background, 28,76 or fetishization and exotification of a Multiracial person's physical appearances. 25,73 Monoracism can also negatively impact Multiracial peoples' racial identity development and socialization, 73,74,77,78 an important protective factor for other racially minoritized groups.…”