“From All Sides”: Black-Asian Reddit Communities Identify and Expand Experiences of the Multiracial Microaggression Taxonomy

Tyler McCoy Gay, Oluyemi T. O. Farinu and Monisha Issano Jackson
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Tyler McCoy Gay: Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30313, USA
Oluyemi T. O. Farinu: Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30313, USA
Monisha Issano Jackson: Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30313, USA

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-20

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the identity narratives of online Black-Asian communities concerning their multiracial microaggression experiences. 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.

Keywords: microaggressions; multiracial; Reddit; monoracism; Black-Asian; MultiCrit; multiracial critical theory; identity; discrimination; white supremacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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