{"id":56574,"date":"2018-06-15T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56574"},"modified":"2018-06-15T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:11:59","slug":"black-white-not-white-understanding-how-multiracial-individuals-are-categorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56574","title":{"rendered":"Black + White = Not White: Understanding How Multiracial Individuals Are Categorized"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black + White = Not White: Understanding How Multiracial Individuals Are Categorized<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

UNEWS<\/a>
\nThe University of Utah
\n2018-06-14<\/p>\n

Brooke Adams<\/strong><\/a>, Communications Specialist
\nUniversity Marketing & Communication<\/em><\/p>\n

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Study finds minority bias exerts a powerful influence in categorizing multiracial individuals<\/em><\/p>\n

How you perceive someone who is multiracial matters. Historically, the answer to that question for someone who was black-white multiracial had repercussions for who that person could marry, what school he or she could attend and other forms of discrimination the individual might experience.<\/p>\n

Today, the United States<\/a> is becoming increasingly multiracial, but social psychologists are just beginning to understand how multiracial individuals are perceived and categorized. A new study<\/a> suggests that the so-called \u201cminority bias\u201d exerts a powerful influence \u2014 important since one in five Americans is expected to identify as multiracial by 2050.<\/p>\n

University of Utah psychology professor Jacqueline M. Chen,<\/a> lead author of the study<\/a> published by the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology<\/em><\/a>, that found observers were most likely to categorize someone who is black-white multiracial as non-white. The findings are the first to document minority bias as a guiding principle in multiracial categorization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question of how perceivers racially categorize multiracial individuals is important because it impacts other social perceptions, like stereotyping, and interactions,\u201d Chen said. \u201cThe bottom line is that we find people tend to see racially ambiguous, multiracial people as racial minorities.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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