Cultural and physical ties to Hawai’i drive Hawaiian racial identification in multiracial children.

Evidence

Kana’iaupuni and Liebler (2005) study suggests that physical and symbolic ties to Hawai’i are imperative to Hawaiian racial identification for multiracial children. Having ties to this cultural physical place (i.e., microsystem) increased Hawaiian racial identification. Hawaiian culture emphasizes physical and spiritual connection to land, the importance of genealogical family and ancestral ties, and the underpinning effects of colonization. Connection to these cultural notions played a significant role in racial identification for multiracial children. Multiracial children who had less cultural and physical connection to Hawai’i were found more often to assign the racial identity of their non-Hawaiian parents when required to report only one race. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 122

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s question about the threshold where homogenizing/solidarity pressure on internally heterogeneous members breaks down: here assimilation-of-the-minority route is chosen when cultural grounding is weak. — connects to: Conflicting familial racial messages create cultural dissonance in Multiracial adolescents. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 114; Physical and symbolic ties to homeland drive minority-race identification in children — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 122; Physical homeland and language shape how parents classify multiracial children — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 123 (+3 more)
• SEED: Possible angle: when forced single-race reporting pits internal heterogeneity against external classification demands, cultural embeddedness predicts which identity a parent assigns — a concrete mechanism for the backfiring-threshold question.

Broader Connections

• Physical and symbolic ties to homeland drive minority-race identification in children #expands (0.88) — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 122
• Physical homeland and language shape how parents classify multiracial children #expands (0.85) — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 123
• Immigrant children may identify more with local minority cultures than their parents’ heritage #complicates (0.74) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 589
• A national park evicted living Hawaiians to present a historic Hawaiian culture #exemplifies (0.73) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 831
• Perceived similarity to a racial category drives self-categorization among mixed-race people #complicates (0.72) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 37