{"id":59293,"date":"2019-11-30T23:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59293"},"modified":"2019-11-30T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T23:00:32","slug":"what-racial-discrimination-will-look-like-in-2060","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59293","title":{"rendered":"What Racial Discrimination Will Look Like in 2060"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Racial Discrimination Will Look Like in 2060<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Scientific American<\/a>
\n2019-11-29<\/p>\n

Marisa Franco<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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As biracial people become increasingly common in America, bias based on <\/em>perceived rather than <\/em>actual identity will too<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2009, Nathaniel Burrage requested a transfer from his job in Youngstown, Ohio<\/a>, where he worked as a driver for FedEx<\/a>. He alleged that he was experiencing ongoing racially motivated harassment. According to Burrage, his supervisor, Dennis Jamiot, alternated between referring to him as \u201cMexican\u201d and \u201ccheap labor,\u201d and shouted \u201c\u00e1ndale<\/a>\u201d and \u201carriba\u201d at him as he walked by. Soon after, he said his other supervisors began to chime in with the same racist insults, and Jamiot began to lob paper clips and chalk at him. One co-worker asked him to weigh in on whether what was etched on a graffiti wall was true: Mexicans are proof that American Indians had sex with buffalos.<\/p>\n

Burrage filed a lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act of 1964<\/a>. Yet, despite the verbal and physical abuse he alleged he\u2019d experienced, his case was dismissed. The reason? Nathanial Burrage was not actually Mexican, or even Hispanic. Burrage was a black\/white biracial man experiencing what I have termed in my research<\/a> as \u201cidentity incongruent discrimination.\u201d Identity incongruent discrimination occurs when someone experiences racial discrimination for a race they are misperceived as.<\/p>\n

As the browning of America continues, identity incongruent discrimination will only continue to rise. It\u2019ll be a pressing problem for the growing multiracial population\u2014a group that is the fastest growing racial group in America and that\u2019s set to triple in size by 2060<\/a>. Research finds that members of the multiracial group are more likely to be miscategorized than members of any other racial group. Compared to categorizing people into a single-race category, categorizing someone as multiracial<\/a> is more mentally cumbersome, takes longer and is less likely to occur. And the most common race<\/a> that black\/white biracial people, like Burrage, are categorized as is Hispanic…<\/p>\n

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