Lumping all non-Black multiracial people into one category erases their distinct 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). — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 51

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reading purpose: this is the homogenizing-pressure problem the reader is investigating — the category ‘Multiracial’ itself exerts essentialist flattening that backfires on heterogeneous members. — connects to: Aggregating distinct Multiracial groups as one category erases their differing experiences. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 51; Racialization erases internal ethnic differences to homogenize a group into a new category. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 516; Lumping all Negro peoples together erases their distinct national histories — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 620 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Aggregating distinct Multiracial groups as one category erases their differing experiences. #corroborates (0.98) — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 51
• Mixed White-Black research insufficiently captures other Multiracial groups’ experiences #exemplifies (0.88) — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 40
• Rigid mutually exclusive categories misdescribe people of mixed ethnic or religious background. #expands (0.86) — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 479
• Racialization erases internal ethnic differences to homogenize a group into a new category. #expands (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 516
• Assimilationist anti-racism both erased black-white difference and homogenized black peoples #exemplifies (0.85) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1189
• The unified ‘Black British’ category collapsed under internal demographic and religious differentiation. #exemplifies (0.83) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 919
• Lumping all Negro peoples together erases their distinct national histories #exemplifies (0.82) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 620
• Racism grotesquely inverted Africa’s cultural oneness into the claim that all Blacks are identical #exemplifies (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 397
• The Middle Passage dissolved ethnic identities into a single African people #complicates (0.79) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 167
• Integration into Western secular society erases national differences within minority groups. #exemplifies (0.78) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 894
• Analogizing racism and sexism erases the specific experience of women of color #exemplifies (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1472
• Racialization assigns visibly non-white people into a collective identity they may not hold #expands (0.76)
• Forced close proximity and shared goals can flatten perceived racial differences. #complicates (0.75) — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 91