Dueling Identities: Unpacking the impacts of linked fate on the political attitudes of multiracial individuals

Only recently have social scientists begun to observe and capture the experiences of the multiracial population, focusing primarily on those with a majority-minority identity (white-Black, white-Asian, and white-Latino). Through a content analysis of 10 interviews, this study seeks to diversify the growing body of research by examining the extent to which Afro-Latinos, a dual-minority group, experience a sense of linked fate with their Black and Latino monoracial counterparts. I find that Afro-Latinos feel a strong sense of linked fate with Blacks but have a mixed sense of linked fate with Latinos. I rely upon racial threat theory and social dominance theory to account for the incongruence between the two. Research suggests that linked fate has substantial implications on a group's political attitudes; this study looks at the impact of Afro-Latino linked fate on Afro-Latino political attitudes (Dawson, 1994).