Multiracial identity recognition with a specific category may be a way to foster a positive racial identity in mixed-race individuals, especially in American society, where the idea of separated racial groups remains. Actually, the development of a healthy and positive racial identity in mixed-race individuals will determine their group membership – if to a single race among the traditional ones, if to more than one (biracial), or if to none (transcendent identity). Also, the consciousness of their multiple racial identities make multiracial Americans and Brazilians able to serve as bridges among races, promoting solidarity and reducing polarization, stereotypes and bias.
Ana Carolina Miguel Gouveia, “Multiracial Identity Recognition – Why Not? A Comparison Between Multiracialism in the United States and Brazil,” PhD diss., University of Ottawa, 2015. 97. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33178.
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