Aggregating distinct Multiracial groups as one category erases their differing experiences.

Evidence

The typical research approach has been to lump these other Multiracial individuals with rich Multiracial backgrounds into a single category as if they shared common experiences despite their many differences. This selective procedure neglects and invalidates the experiences and backgrounds of other Multiracial groups and individuals (Atkin and Yoo, 2019). … This review seeks to broaden our understanding of the ethnic-racial identity development and socialization of Multiracial individuals through a focus on empirical literature that centers specifically on the experiences of non-Black/ white ethnically mixed background individuals, since Multiracial people with different ancestral backgrounds may be influenced and affected by different cultures, languages, and experiences. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 51

Categorization

• XREF: This is the load-bearing theme for the reader’s stated purpose: the homogenizing pressure of grouping mixed-identity people together, and the threshold at which protective solidarity backfires on heterogeneous members. — connects to: Published multiracial research skews Latinx and views ancestry as a categorical aid. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 105; Once categorized, group members are assumed similar within and different across categories — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1379; Perceiving a group’s internal diversity yields more moderate, less simplified views — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1163 (+2 more)

Related

• Lumping all non-Black multiracial people into one category erases their distinct experiences. (similarity 0.88)
• Mixed White-Black research insufficiently captures other Multiracial groups’ experiences (similarity 0.85)
• Published multiracial research skews Latinx and views ancestry as a categorical aid. (similarity 0.84)
• Once categorized, group members are assumed similar within and different across categories (similarity 0.84)
• Racial category emphasis can obscure shared interests across racial lines (similarity 0.83)
• Crossed categories reduce in-group bias and dependence on single identities (similarity 0.82)
• Mixed people face most identity threats in settings that force mono-racial categories (similarity 0.82)
• Mixed individuals shift self-categorization across situations because similarity tests prove inconclusive. (similarity 0.82)
• Holding multiple group identities simultaneously shapes intergroup attitudes (similarity 0.81)
• Mixed individuals endorse less essentialist racial beliefs than monoracial peers. (similarity 0.81)
• Ethnic identity choices are constrained by socially defined categories carrying unequal advantage (similarity 0.81)
• Multiracial identity is fluid across a lifetime unlike stable monoracial identity (similarity 0.81)
• Essentialist beliefs about race incline mixed individuals toward a single distinct mixed identity (similarity 0.81)
• Mixed individuals shift identification within a single social domain. (similarity 0.81)
• A black-white paradigm in antiracism theory obscures other racisms and inequality forms (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Once categorized, group members are assumed similar within and different across categories #expands (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1379
• Perceiving a group’s internal diversity yields more moderate, less simplified views #contradicts (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1163
• Integration into Western secular society erases national differences within minority groups. #qualifies (0.75) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 894
• Racial category emphasis can obscure shared interests across racial lines #exemplifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 120