ABSTRACT
Hybridity is a nineteenth-century word that was used to refer to physiological phenomena and played a prominent role in the racialized formulations about miscegenation and 'racial mixture'. Some of these formulations appear in contemporary language and concepts, such as when a distinction between pure and mixed race is made. The higher psychological well-being of dual identifiers can be because the statistical effects of national identification and ethnic identification are additive or multiplicative. In contrast to intersectionality, the emphasis is more on two identities that, in principle, exist in a similar domain and are of the same type. It has to do with competing racial and national identities. The notion of intersectionality gained prominence in the United States in the 1970s to describe multiple forms of oppression. Members of groups holding multiple disadvantaged statuses would face multiple forms of oppression, with an increased risk for unique negative experiences.
