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. The exclusion of multiracial populations within racial microaggression research is also significant given that multiracial people are the fastest-growing racial minority in the United States ( Shih and Sanchez 2009 Jackson 2010). Moreover, the hegemonic representation of Whiteness in mixed-race research ( Charmaraman et al. 2014) fails to account for multiracial people who hold compounded racialized identities. This limitation does a disservice to the understanding of racial microaggressions experienced by those who hold more than one racially minoritized identity or heritage. For example, Root ( 2001) found that multiracial Black-Asian persons (individuals of both Black and Asian descent) faced increased racism compared with multiracial Asian–White individuals ( Johnston and Nadal 2010).
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