Mixed people face most identity threats in settings that force mono-racial categories

Evidence

We propose that Mixed individuals may experience most of these social identity threats when they navigate their complex identities through social environments in which racial–ethnic identities are simplified into mutually exclusive mono-racial categories (Harris 2016). — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 107

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the reading purpose: the homogenizing/essentializing pressure described here is what the reader wants to test against mixed-identity members. — connects to: Even single-group settings keep mixed-race identity chronically salient — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 57; Mixed individuals’ identity choices are frequently invalidated by mono-racial others. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 105; Mixed-identity individuals shift between racial identities to meet context-specific needs. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 64 (+5 more)
• QUESTION: This suggests institutional or perceptual simplification of categories is the mechanism driving threat, worth probing against the reader’s essentialism hypothesis.

Broader Connections

• Mixed-identity individuals shift between racial identities to meet context-specific needs. #expands (0.85) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 64
• Identity denial may make mixed-race people shift identification to a different ingroup #exemplifies (0.85) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 119
• Identity invalidation by mono-racial others shapes mixed individuals’ self-definition #corroborates (0.85) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 115
• Mixed identities involve ambiguously crossing mutually exclusive categories within a single social domain #expands (0.80) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 15
• Mixed individuals categorically shift toward whichever mono-racial prototype is absent #qualifies (0.72) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 51
• Race when invoked to categorize humans almost invariably operates as threat and disruption #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1842