As we are investigating an under-explored population, we utilize a purposive sampling method to narrow forum engagement by Black-Asian users on the popular social media network, Reddit. Our research is guided by multiracial critical theory (MultiCrit) which highlights monoracism as a ubiquitous element of the monoracial paradigm of race. In our research, we employ a content analysis using Black-Asian microaggression narratives to test the existing multiracial microaggression taxonomy. Our findings demonstrate that Black-Asian subreddit communities identified all of the existing multiracial microaggression categories: (1) exclusion or isolation (2) exotification and objectification (3) assumption of monoracial or mistaken identity (4) denial of multiraciality (5) pathologizing of identity and experiences and (6) microaggressions based on racial stereotypes. Our analysis also found an emerging microaggression category entitled (7) white-mixed superiority. These multiracial microaggressions drew on monoracist ideologies and the monoracial paradigm of race, which exclude Black-Asian people and aid the maintenance of white supremacy in the United States. As such, we suggest further inquiry and expansion of the multiracial microaggression taxonomy to include how racism, particularly the monoracial paradigm of race, influences non-white multiracial identities. The exclusion of multiracial populations within racial microaggression research is also significant given that multiracial people are the fastest-growing racial minority in the United States ( Shih and Sanchez 2009 Jackson 2010).
Moreover, the hegemonic representation of Whiteness in mixed-race research ( Charmaraman et al.
2014) fails to account for multiracial people who hold compounded racialized identities. This limitation does a disservice to the understanding of racial microaggressions experienced by those who hold more than one racially minoritized identity or heritage.
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