Identity threats named by social identity research split into individual versus group-level types

Evidence

Such social identity threats have been described within the later works on social identity by Branscombe et al. (1999) and can be differentiated into categorization threat (i.e., a social category membership is imposed on an individual), acceptance threat (i.e., uncertainty about acceptance by other ingroup members), value threat (i.e., the status of an ingroup is threatened) and distinctiveness threat (i.e., concerns about the uniqueness of the ingroup). While the former two pose threats to the individual, the two latter pose threats to the group. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 107

Categorization

• DEFINE: A compact four-part taxonomy of social identity threats—categorization/acceptance targeting the individual, value/distinctiveness targeting the group—useful as an analytic framing tool.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s question about protective solidarity’s homogenizing pressure on mixed-identity members: this taxonomy gives names for the specific harms mixed members face when pushed into mono-racial boxes. — connects to: Group-level threats and individual-level threats trigger systematically different responses — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 23; White identity threats split between ingroup-centered decline and outgroup-centered power — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 7; Ingroup identification strength moderates whether group-level or individual-level threats drive attitudes. — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 151

Broader Connections

• Group-level threats and individual-level threats trigger systematically different responses #expands (0.95) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 23
• Ingroup identification strength moderates whether group-level or individual-level threats drive attitudes. #qualifies (0.80) — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup Attitudes, 151
• White identity threats split between ingroup-centered decline and outgroup-centered power #exemplifies (0.78) — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 7