Because of the essentialist construction of race in the U.S. as discrete immutable categories, Multiethnic-racial (ME-R) persons, those with parents from two different ethnic-racial backgrounds, find themselves navigating many monoethnic-racial norms. When faced with these norms they must choose how they will express their ethnic-racial identities to others. One way they may shift their identity is through malleable racial identification, the act of aligning with different racial identities across different social situations. The purpose of this study is to examine malleable racial identification strategies, including cognitive, communicative, and labeling strategies, through participant voice. One hundred twenty-three ME-R individuals shared their malleable racial identification experiences and results suggest that ME-R individuals experience different feelings, as well as employ several communication patterns and identification strategies, in order to navigate feeling forced into monoethnic-racial spaces.

由于在美国将种族本质主义建构为离散的不变类别，多民族种族 (ME-R) 的人，即父母来自两个不同民族种族背景的人，发现自己在许多单一民族种族规范中航行。当面对这些规范时，他们必须选择如何向他人表达他们的种族身份。他们可能改变身份的一种方式是通过可塑的种族认同，即在不同的社会情况下与不同的种族身份保持一致的行为。本研究的目的是通过参与者的声音检查可塑的种族识别策略，包括认知、交际和标签策略。