Identity invalidation by mono-racial others shapes mixed individuals’ self-definition
Evidence
The authors also stress the importance of the types of social interactions between a Mixed individual and mono-racial others and showed that Mixed individuals’ assumptions about how prototypical they were perceived by others, as well as experiencing validation versus invalidation of their identities, were important factors in the development of their self-definition. Specifically, many of their participants reported that their choice of a Mixed identity was invalidated by others. Such experiences are rather common among Mixed individuals (e.g., Albuja et al. 2022; Campion 2019; Franco et al. 2016), which is why we elaborate on these in the next section. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 115
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on ingroup essentialism and entitativity pressures felt by mixed-identity group members — invalidation is the flip side of prototype-based pressure. — connects to: Mixed-identity self-categorization strategies exceed what social identity complexity theory predicts. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 48; Others’ questioning and ingroup invalidation force Mixed individuals into chronic self-concept uncertainty — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 86; Colour-blind ideologies threaten non-dominant group members by suppressing identity-relevant aspects of self — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 86 (+10 more)
Broader Connections
- Identity denial may make mixed-race people shift identification to a different ingroup
#expands(0.86) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 119 - Mixed-identity individuals shift ingroup identification according to which dimension holds higher status
#expands(0.82) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 73 - Concealability of an identity and its normative status shape mixed-identity processes.
#qualifies(0.74) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 125