Multiracial people

Multiracial people have ancestry or racial identities associated with more than one socially recognized racial group. How they are classified and identify varies across societies and individuals.

Multiracial identity: A sense of self connected to ancestry or belonging across more than one racial group. It describes how people make personal meaning from multiracial ancestry.
Casta: A colonial Spanish American system that classified people through ancestry, race, and social status. Its labels codified distinctions among people of mixed ancestry.
Race and ethnicity in the United States Census: The changing methods used by the United States census to collect and classify racial and ethnic identities. Its categories determine how multiracial populations are counted in federal statistics.
Race (human categorization): A social system that groups people using perceived physical traits and ideas about ancestry. Multiracial identity spans categories within this broader system.
Multiracial families: Families whose members have ancestry or identities associated with more than one racial group. Family relationships often shape how ancestry and identity are discussed and understood.
Mixed-race identity development: The ways people understand and express identities connected to more than one racial background over time. Identity can change as family, community, and social settings change.
Miscegenation: The historical term for marriage or reproduction across racial classifications, often used in discriminatory laws and rhetoric. Anti-miscegenation laws regulated relationships that could create multiracial families.
Multiracial Americans: People in the United States whose ancestry or racial identity spans more than one racial group. They illustrate how multiracial identification is shaped by a specific national history.
Social construction of race: The idea that racial categories and their meanings are created and maintained through social processes. It explains why racial boundaries and multiracial labels differ across societies and eras.
Racial socialization: The process through which people learn about race, racial identity, and navigating racialized society. Parents and communities can pass on strategies for interpreting multiracial identity.

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Black peopleCompared with: Multiracial identities complicate racial categories that presume fixed, exclusive membership.