“There Are Stereotypes for Everything”: Multiracial Adolescents Navigating Racial Identity under White Supremacy
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 mainta...
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| description | 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 (<i>n</i> = 49; <i>M<sub>age</sub></i> = 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5916ec7723f24e9fbb97a5e6f5348ee82023-11-23T15:23:40ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602022-01-011111910.3390/socsci11010019“There Are Stereotypes for Everything”: Multiracial Adolescents Navigating Racial Identity under White SupremacyCourtney Meiling Jones0Leoandra Onnie Rogers1Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201, USADepartment of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201, USADespite 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 (<i>n</i> = 49; <i>M<sub>age</sub></i> = 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/1/19multiracialmixed raceracial identity developmentracial-ethnic socializationMultiCritadolescence |
| spellingShingle | Courtney Meiling Jones Leoandra Onnie Rogers “There Are Stereotypes for Everything”: Multiracial Adolescents Navigating Racial Identity under White Supremacy Social Sciences multiracial mixed race racial identity development racial-ethnic socialization MultiCrit adolescence |
| title | “There Are Stereotypes for Everything”: Multiracial Adolescents Navigating Racial Identity under White Supremacy |
| title_full | “There Are Stereotypes for Everything”: Multiracial Adolescents Navigating Racial Identity under White Supremacy |
| title_fullStr | “There Are Stereotypes for Everything”: Multiracial Adolescents Navigating Racial Identity under White Supremacy |
| title_full_unstemmed | “There Are Stereotypes for Everything”: Multiracial Adolescents Navigating Racial Identity under White Supremacy |
| title_short | “There Are Stereotypes for Everything”: Multiracial Adolescents Navigating Racial Identity under White Supremacy |
| title_sort | there are stereotypes for everything multiracial adolescents navigating racial identity under white supremacy |
| topic | multiracial mixed race racial identity development racial-ethnic socialization MultiCrit adolescence |
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