Multiracial Identity and Social Support: Navigating the Monoracial Paradigm
This study names a problem most research misses. After experiencing racism, people typically turn to their racial in-group for support; but when your in-group lines are blurred by design, where exactly do you turn? The authors call the built-in assumption behind that gap the monoracial paradigm, the default belief that everyone is one race, and they trace what it costs multiracial people in everyday support. It reads like an academic argument for exactly the kind of community ME/RG exists to build: a room where nobody has to qualify first.