The growing multiracial population and the emergent body of research examining how we categorize this population highlights the complexity and malleability inherent in racial categorization. Few studies, however, have examined how categorization of multiracial targets as biracial (rather than a presumed monoracial category) differs across different geographic contexts or how perceivers categorize multiracial minority targets (i.e., those who are not part White). Here, we examined malleability in racial categorizations of Black-White, Asian-White, and Asian-Black faces across two geographic contexts: Hawai‘i and California. We found that perceivers (in Hawai‘i in Study 1; in both contexts in Study 2) categorized Black-White faces most often as biracial, followed by Asian-Black faces, and then Asian-White faces. Moreover, those who lived in a geographic context with a large biracial population (Hawai‘i) categorized multiracial targets as biracial more often than those who lived in a majority White context (California).

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混血儿分类中的可延展性：地理环境和目标种族传统的影响

不断增长的多种族人口以及正在研究如何对这些人口进行分类的研究机构突显了种族分类固有的复杂性和可塑性。然而，很少有研究检查过在不同地理环境下将多种族目标分类为两性（而不是假定的单种族类别）的差异或感知者如何将多种族少数目标（即那些不属于白人的目标）进行分类。在这里，我们在夏威夷和加利福尼亚这两个地理环境中研究了黑人，白人，亚裔和黑人的种族分类中的可塑性。我们发现知觉者（在研究1中的夏威夷；在研究2中的两种情况下）最常将黑白面孔分类为混血儿，其次是亚裔黑人面孔，然后是亚裔白人面孔。此外，