The Influences Affecting and the Influential Effects of Multiracials: Multiracialism and Stratification

Strmic-Pawl, Hephzibah V.

doi:10.1111/soc4.12100

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“…To the extent that multiracial people are understood to identify more strongly with their nonwhite racial group than otherwise, ascription is highlighted as the key mechanism through which this occurs. Black-white multiracial people, in particular, are often seen as reluctant to identify as multiracial or as white because they are not seen as such, whereas biracial white-Asians and white-Latinx people are perceived to identify more strongly as multiracial or white due to their lighter skin and phenotype (Brunsma and Rockquemore 2001; Davenport 2016; Lee and Bean 2007; Strmic-Pawl 2014). Khanna (2004) argues, however, that the existing empirical evidence linking phenotype to identity among multiracials is inconsistent, suggesting that ascription is only one component of how race is made and understood.…”

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“…In line with these arguments, family context and community context, for example, are theorized to be important factors that shape multiracial identities and perceptions about race (Brunsma 2005; Khanna 2004; Roth 2005; Xie and Goyette 1997). Yet while many scholars of multiracial identity note the importance of community context and social network composition in shaping identity (Harris and Sim 2002; Herman 2004; Khanna 2011; Rockquemore and Brunsma 2002a; Strmic-Pawl 2014), few scholars who seek to theorize the role of multiracials in the racial hierarchy do so.…”

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“…Subgroup differences by racial combination may be present. Because racial boundaries have been more strictly enforced for Americans of African ancestry, the Black-white biracial experience may be distinct from other group combinations (Davenport 2016; Strmic-Pawl 2014). To account for the possibility of subgroup differences, we include a measure that captures five different possible group combinations.…”

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“…2 Since the shift toward marking two or more races on the U.S. census in 2000, scholars have speculated on, but rarely empirically tested, these assertions. Indeed, despite the weight given to the multiracial population in theorizing racial change, less attention has been paid to multiracial peoples' placement within the racial hierarchy (but see Davenport 2018;Davenport et al, 2022;Masuoka and Junn 2013;Strmic-Pawl 2014). While individual identity choices and outcomes are important and relevant to how racial hierarchies form, without attention to how multiracials see themselves within the racial hierarchy, gaps in our racial formation theories will remain.…”

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Making Minorities or Honorary Whites? Examining Multiracial Self-Concept

Jones,

Frank

2023

Soc Psychol Q

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Since the 1990s, scholars have speculated on the role of multiracials in shaping race relations in the twenty-first century. Drawing from a purposive sample of roughly 600 self-identified multiracials of partial white origin, we examine race making among multiracials through what we are calling self-concept, a conceptualization that runs along two dimensions—identity and closeness—by which we assess the extent to which multiracials align more closely with a white self-concept, more closely with a minority self-concept, or equally. We find that while there is variation, multiracials of partial white ancestry are more likely to express a self-concept that is more aligned with minorities than with whites. Moreover, we find that despite what the literature suggests, variation in self-concept is less associated with ascription than with social/familial context and racial attitudes. These findings suggest that while ascription matters, racial self-concept is primarily shaped through experience.

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Making Minorities or Honorary Whites? Examining Multiracial Self-Concept

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2023

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Rejecting Multiracial Stereotypes: Parental Socialization Practices at the Intersection of Race and Gender

Johnson

2024

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Stereotypes surrounding multiracial individuals include being viewed as inherently attractive because of their mixed-race background, and, therefore, having a superiority complex, which reinforces racial hierarchies and creates division and tension within communities of color. This superiority complex is often rooted in colorism and proximity to White beauty standards. Drawing upon in-depth, semistructured interviews with 19 sets of interracial parents in the United States, I describe parents’ awareness and perceptions of these stereotypes at the intersection of race and gender. Parents understand that their Black multiracial boys must contend with both multiracial stereotypes and controlling images of Black men and boys. I argue that parents’ understanding of both multiracial stereotypes, like the Biracial Beauty Stereotype, and controlling images of Black boys and men informs their racial socialization practices as they help their child(ren) build a positive racial identity and prepare for discrimination.

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Gender, Generation, and Multiracial Identification in the United States

Saperstein

Morning

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Multiracial self-identification is frequently portrayed as a disproportionately female tendency, but previous research has not probed the conditions under which this relationship might occur. Using the 2015 Pew Survey of Multiracial Adults, we offer a more comprehensive analysis that considers gender differences at two distinct stages: reporting multiple races in one's ancestry and selecting multiple races to describe oneself. We also examine self-identification patterns by the generational locus of multiracial ancestry. We find that females are more likely to be aware of multiracial ancestry overall, but only first-generation females are more likely than their male counterparts to self-identify as multiracial. Finally, we explore the role of racial ancestry combination, finding that multiracial awareness and self-identification are likely gendered differently for different segments of the mixed-race population. This offers a more nuanced picture of how gender interacts with other social processes to shape racial identification in the United States.

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The Influences Affecting and the Influential Effects of Multiracials: Multiracialism and Stratification

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

Making Minorities or Honorary Whites? Examining Multiracial Self-Concept

Making Minorities or Honorary Whites? Examining Multiracial Self-Concept

Rejecting Multiracial Stereotypes: Parental Socialization Practices at the Intersection of Race and Gender

Gender, Generation, and Multiracial Identification in the United States

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