What Am I? Perceptions and Experiences of Ethnic Ambiguity Among Multiethnic Individuals

  What Am I? Perceptions and Experiences of Ethnic Ambiguity Among Multiethnic Individuals Poster Presentation by Jennifer Wu, M.A. in Division 45 – Society for Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C. August 5, 2017 For a PDF version of my poster presentation, please

Ethnic Ambiguity vs. Racial Ambiguity: The Chameleon Experience of Multiethnic Individuals

Ethnic Ambiguity vs. Racial Ambiguity: The Chameleon Experience of Multiethnic Individuals Poster Presentation by Jennifer Wu, M.A. at the Annual Ph.D. Poster Session at California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, San Francisco May 8, 2017 For a PDF version of my poster presentation, please click on the following link to download the file:

Participants’ Definitions of Racial Ambiguity

“I think it means that when someone looks at you, they can’t automatically…tell what you are by your physical appearance…?” “I think racial ambiguity is when you don’t fit neatly into the categories that people grew up like internalizing because race is a construct, it’s not real, but we’ve made up these categories. And when

Participants’ Definitions of Ethnic Ambiguity

“Similar I guess to racial ambiguity but with race, it’s more clear that there’s only a handful of races versus ethnicities, you can be lots of different things.” “It’s a little bit special to the U.S. I don’t think a lot of other countries would have the same immigrant culture. I’ve seen a tradition of

Researcher’s Definitions of Ethnic Ambiguity and Racial Ambiguity

Ethnic Ambiguity: Uncertainty or inexactness of one’s ethnicity/ethnicities or ethnic background/identity Based more on cultural factors Racial Ambiguity: Uncertainty or inexactness of one’s race/races or racial background/identity Based more on physical appearance and phenotype

Results: Answers about Ethnic Ambiguity from Background Questionnaire

Have you ever been asked, “What are you?” 100% Have you ever been asked, “What race/ethnicity are you?” or “What is your racial/ethnic background?”  100% Have you ever been asked, “Where are you from?” 100% Have you ever been asked, “No, where are you really from?” 87.5% Have you ever been asked, “Where are your