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In the previous chapters, we have seen how our mixed race respondents exercised ethnic options over time and in a variety of contexts and how some of our sample were able to name just one racial/ethnic group that contributed most strongly to their identity. We have also examined the ways in which disparate mixed individuals can differently perceive, understand, and respond to other people’s perceptions and treatment of them. In this chapter we explore the relative importance of various identity dimensions for different racial/ethnic groups, and we focus especially on the importance of ethnic and racial identities for our mixed respondents’ sense of selves and their everyday lives.
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© 2013 Peter Aspinall and Miri Song
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Aspinall, P., Song, M. (2013). How Central Is ‘Race’ to Mixed Race People?. In: Mixed Race Identities. Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318893_6
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