Mixed-heritage individuals’ encounters with raciolinguistic ideologies

Mixed-heritage individuals (MHIs) are known to face high levels of social exclusion. Here, we investigate how raciolinguistic ideologies related one’s heritage language abilities add these exclusionary experiences. The results from 293 MHIs reveal frequent experiences marginalisation members each their communities because racial appearance and practices perceived as deviant outside imagined ‘monoracial’ norms. Specifically, over half respondents described exclusion for not speaking minority languages with the same accent or manner fluency associated native speakers dialects. Another subset pressure speak ‘proper English’ in White dominant work environments. These extend past MHI by empirically documenting ‘monoracial-only’, monoglossic, ‘Standard that contribute continued MHIs.