Mixed individuals’ multiple ingroups are simultaneously present together

Evidence

On the other hand, the presence of both Black and White group members may also constitute a form of intragroup context for Black/White Mixed individuals because members of their multiple racial– ethnic ingroups are present. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 57

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines a dual-ingroup context as itself an intragroup situation for Mixed people, which nuances what ā€˜ingroup context’ means for someone straddling categories.
  • QUESTION: Worth chasing: does protective solidarity recruit Mixed members toward one ingroup over the other, and how does the homogenizing pressure interact when both ingroups are co-present?
  • XREF: connects to: People represent their group memberships as arranged in overlapping or nested structures — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 659; Mixed identities involve ambiguously crossing mutually exclusive categories within a single social domain — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 15

Broader Connections