Jones Courtney Meiling, Lam Phoebe H, Rogers Leoandra Onnie
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University.
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2024 Aug 29. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000719.
The social category of race plays an important role in how people navigate their identities and social worlds, especially in societies where racial injustice is salient. The present study considers the racial identity experiences of Multiracial and monoracial Black adults in the United States during a race-salient moment: the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Using survey data collected in the fall of 2020, our study seeks to understand racial identity and activism experiences among age-diverse monoracial and Multiracial Black people during BLM 2020.
Participants were 183 Black adults in the United States (73 Multiracial, 110 monoracial). Regressions were conducted to examine (a) how identity exploration and commitment differed by age and by Multiracial status during a time of heightened racial salience, and (b) how identity exploration and commitment was associated with BLM engagement.
We found that Multiracial and monoracial individuals engage with racial identity differently across age groups, reflecting their different relationships with dominant societal narratives of race. We also found positive associations between racial identity and BLM engagement regardless of participants' Multiracial status or age.
While our findings did underscore several commonalities across Multiracial and monoracial Black people, they also indicated a need to revisit the relevance of established (mono)racial identity development models for Multiracial individuals, especially outside of adolescence and young adulthood. Revisiting previous models is critical to engage with the m(ai)cro process of racial identity and how the cultural context of anti-Blackness and monoracism shapes individual development across the life course. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
种族这一社会类别在人们如何构建自身身份认同以及融入社会生活方面发挥着重要作用，在种族不公正现象突出的社会中尤为如此。本研究考察了美国多族裔和单一种族黑人成年人在一个种族凸显时刻的种族身份认同经历，即2020年的“黑人的命也是命”（BLM）运动。利用2020年秋季收集的调查数据，我们的研究旨在了解在2020年BLM运动期间，不同年龄的单一种族和多族裔黑人的种族身份认同及行动主义经历。
研究参与者为183名美国黑人成年人（73名多族裔，110名单一种族）。进行回归分析以检验：（a）在种族关注度较高的时期，身份认同探索和投入在年龄和多族裔身份方面的差异；（b）身份认同探索和投入与参与BLM运动之间的关联。
我们发现，多族裔和单一种族个体在不同年龄组中对种族身份的认同方式不同，这反映了他们与主流社会种族叙事的不同关系。我们还发现，无论参与者的多族裔身份或年龄如何（在种族身份认同与参与BLM运动之间）都存在正相关。
虽然我们的研究结果确实强调了多族裔和单一种族黑人之间的一些共性，但也表明有必要重新审视已有的（单一）种族身份发展模型对多族裔个体的适用性，尤其是在青春期和青年期之外。重新审视以往的模型对于理解种族身份认同的微观过程以及反黑人主义和单一种族主义的文化背景如何在整个生命历程中塑造个体发展至关重要。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》（c）2024美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
