TY - JOUR
T1 - “There Are Stereotypes for Everything”
T2 - Multiracial Adolescents Navigating Racial Identity under White Supremacy
AU - Jones, Courtney Meiling
AU - Rogers, Leoandra Onnie
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, grant number R01 HL122328.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: We would like to thank Gregory E. Miller, the PI on the NIH grant (R01 HL12232), for the opportunity to collaborate on the interview data collection and to conduct this secondary data analysis. We would also like to thank Elisa Rapadas and Destiny Reinhardt for their help during the coding phase, and the entire Development of Identities in Cultural Environments (DICE) lab for their contributions throughout the process.
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PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - Despite the enduring popular view that the rise in the multiracial population heralds our nation’s transformation into a post-racial society, Critical Multiracial Theory (MultiCrit) asserts that how multiracial identity status is constructed is inextricably tied to systems and ideologies that maintain the white supremacist status quo in the United States. MultiCrit, like much of the multiracial identity literature, focuses predominantly on the experiences of emerging adults; this means we know little about the experiences of multiracial adolescents, a peak period for identity development. The current paper uses MultiCrit to examine how a diverse sample of multiracial youth (n = 49; Mage = 15.5 years) negotiate racial identity development under white supremacy. Our qualitative interview analysis reveals: (a) the salience of socializing messages from others, (b) that such messages reinforce a (mono)racist societal structure via discrimination, stereotyping, and invalidation, and (c) that multiracial youth frequently resist (mono)racist assertions as they make sense of their own identities. Our results suggest that multiracial youth are attentive to the myriad ways that white supremacy constructs and constrains their identities, and thus underscores the need to bring a critical lens to the study of multiracial identity development.
AB - Despite the enduring popular view that the rise in the multiracial population heralds our nation’s transformation into a post-racial society, Critical Multiracial Theory (MultiCrit) asserts that how multiracial identity status is constructed is inextricably tied to systems and ideologies that maintain the white supremacist status quo in the United States. MultiCrit, like much of the multiracial identity literature, focuses predominantly on the experiences of emerging adults; this means we know little about the experiences of multiracial adolescents, a peak period for identity development. The current paper uses MultiCrit to examine how a diverse sample of multiracial youth (n = 49; Mage = 15.5 years) negotiate racial identity development under white supremacy. Our qualitative interview analysis reveals: (a) the salience of socializing messages from others, (b) that such messages reinforce a (mono)racist societal structure via discrimination, stereotyping, and invalidation, and (c) that multiracial youth frequently resist (mono)racist assertions as they make sense of their own identities. Our results suggest that multiracial youth are attentive to the myriad ways that white supremacy constructs and constrains their identities, and thus underscores the need to bring a critical lens to the study of multiracial identity development.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Mixed race
KW - MultiCrit
KW - Multiracial
KW - Racial identity development
KW - Racial-ethnic socialization
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U2 - 10.3390/socsci11010019
DO - 10.3390/socsci11010019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123242567
SN - 2076-0760
VL - 11
JO - Social Sciences
JF - Social Sciences
IS - 1
M1 - 19
ER -