An individual’s microsystems often deliver mutually conflicting racial acceptance and rejection messages.

Evidence

Oftentimes, these microsystems provided mixed and conflicting messages about belonging to different ethnic-racial groups. For example, for some Latinx individuals, family members spoke disparagingly of the youth’s Black identity and experience, while at the same time Latinx peers invalidated their Latinidad as insufficient. Thus, biracial individuals face the inevitable reality that often their two different microsystems clash in their acceptance or rejection of their different identities. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 131

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s threshold question: when does protective solidarity’s homogenizing pressure backfire on internally heterogeneous members — here the same Latinx person is simultaneously pushed away by family (for Blackness) and by peers (for insufficient Latinidad), caught between two in-groups each policing membership. — connects to: Everyday multiethnic contact complicates, yet coexists with, media-amplified racial prejudices. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 73; Contradictory cultural norms force individuals into conflicting prejudiced and egalitarian stances. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1904; A society is either racist or not; gradations are evasions. (+4 more)
• QUESTION: This example shows conflict framed as rejection by in-groups rather than exclusion by an out-group — worth tracking whether the ‘protective solidarity’ backfire is better modeled as intra-group membership policing.

Broader Connections

• Symbolic racism may coexist comfortably with stated belief in equal opportunity #exemplifies (0.85) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2186
• Contradictory cultural norms force individuals into conflicting prejudiced and egalitarian stances. #corroborates (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1904
• Outward racial rigidity masks internally contradictory individual subjectivities #corroborates (0.79)
• Everyday multiethnic contact complicates, yet coexists with, media-amplified racial prejudices. #corroborates (0.78) — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture, 73
• Everyday interracial socializing coexists with unaddressed institutional and labor market discrimination #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 857
• A society is either racist or not; gradations are evasions. #contradicts (0.74)
• Anything can be two contradictory things at once, including social systems #expands (0.72) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 56