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- Multiracial individuals can identify with multiple racial groups based on their self-perception and connection to a minority group.
- The similarity to a minority ingroup influences how they classify themselves and impacts their perceived eligibility for minority resources like affirmative action.
- Research using path analysis on mixed-race minority-White participants indicates that emotional factors play a more significant role in self-categorization than just physical appearance.
Article Abstract
Multiracial individuals are in the unique position of being able to categorize themselves as members of multiple racial groups. Drawing on self-categorization theory, we suggest that similarity to the minority ingroup depends on self-perceptions of physical appearance and connectedness to the minority ingroup. Moreover, we argue that similarity to the ingroup determines self-categorization as minority, which predicts category-based entitlements such as perceived eligibility for minority resources (e.g., affirmative action). Using path analysis, we found support for this model on a convenience sample of 107 mixed-race minority-White participants. The results suggest that affective processes rather than observable characteristics such as prototypical physical appearance better predict self-categorization among mixed-race individuals.
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