The harms of racial miscategorization: Comparing multiracial individuals' well-being in the continental U.S. versus Hawai'i.

Serena DoesGregory John Leslie Ariana Naomi Bell Katsumi Yamaguchi-PedrozaKhadija M ShalbiMargaret Shih

Published in: Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology (2021)

Racial miscategorization is a prominent and aversive experience among multiracial individuals, but multiracial environments can serve as a psychological buffer. Racial miscategorization has important theoretical and practical implications for racial and ethnic identity research, which we discuss. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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