Mixed-Heritage Individuals and Systemic Risk During Negotiation of Identity
Mixed-Heritage Individuals and Systemic Risk During Negotiation of Identity
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混合遗传个体和身份协商过程中的系统性风险
DOI：
10.1080/15348458.2022.2065277
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2022
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Kimura Daisuke
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作者：
Tsai Aurora;Straka Brenda;Kimura Daisuke
后结构主义对语言和身份的研究展示了个人如何发挥作用来制定替代身份，重塑权力结构，并获得资源。然而，这种机构做法给少数人带来了巨大的风险，他们必须在系统性种族主义和语言歧视下定期谈判自己的身份。我们聚焦于混合血统个体(MHIS)，他们经常通过日常微攻击被问及或否认他们的民族认同，并考察了293名MHIS对开放式调查问题的回答，描述了他们在身份谈判中使用的策略和经历的风险。研究结果显示，许多人使用解释、文化资本和语言风格来表达民族身份；然而，否认、客观化、种族冒名顶替者综合症和焦虑的经历导致许多人评估哪些情况下可以安全地实施他们的身份，哪些情况下不安全。因此，我们讨论了在种族主义个人的身份谈判中认识到系统性风险的重要性。
Poststructuralist research in language and identity demonstrates how individuals exert agency to enact alternative identities, reshape power structures, and gain access to resources. However, this approach to agency carries immense risk for minoritized individuals, who must regularly negotiate their identities under systemic racism and linguistic discrimination. We focus on mixed-heritage individuals (MHIs), who are regularly questioned about or denied their ethnoracial identities through everyday microaggressions, and examine 293 MHIs’ responses to open-ended survey questions, describing the strategies they use and risks experienced during negotiation of identity. Findings reveal MHIs use explanations, cultural capital, and linguistic styling to express ethnoracial identities; however, experiences of denial, objectification, racial imposter syndrome, and anxiety lead many to assess which situations are safe to enact their identities and which are not. Consequently, we discuss the importance of recognizingsystemic riskduring negotiation of identity for racialized individuals.