Examining Racial Identity Invalidation and Well-Being Among Biracial Adolescents
New research on the exact moments in our does-this-sound-familiar list. The study follows biracial adolescents and finds that identity invalidation, being told you are not really X, measurably damages belonging at the age when belonging matters most. The hopeful half is just as concrete: identity flexibility, the practiced ease of moving among the parts of who you are, appears to buffer against that harm. In other words, the what-are-you moment has a science, and so does what helps.. The open-access version is linked below for the full details.