Multiracial Children's and Adults' Categorizations of Multiracial Individuals.

ABSTRACT: Research has explored how multiracial individuals are categorized by monoracial individuals, but has not yet explored how they are categorized by multiracial individuals themselves. We examined how multiracial children (4-9 years) and adults categorized multiracial targets (presented with and without parentage information). When parentage information was provided, multiracial targets were more likely to be categorized as neither wholly black nor wholly white. However, both multiracial adults and children more often categorized multiracial targets as black than as white regardless of the absence or presence of parentage information. For multiracial children, increased contact with white people predicted the tendency to categorize multiracial targets as black. These data suggest that multira

SUBMITTER: Roberts SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5588871 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature