‘Mixed-race' young people's differential responses to misrecognition in Britain

The growth of ‘mixed-race’ ¹ people and relationships and changes in census and other official classification of ethnic and racial groups in countries such as the US, Canada, and Britain have engendered a recent spate of studies which address the issue of how multiracial people choose their racial identifications. In this chapter, we examine the question of whether mixed-race young people believe that their chosen identifications are validated by others; we then investigate how these young people respond to others’ racial perceptions of them.