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multiracial identity  

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  • Multiracial (also biracial) identity is a concept of personal identity based on the physical mixing of biological racial essences. The assertion of a multiracial identity necessarily implies that the subject has parents or more distant ancestors of at least two different biological racial groups. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Multiracial Identity]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/multiracial_identity

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