Mapping Black mixed-race Birmingham

Place, locality and identity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3314520
AutoresKaris Campion (0000-0002-8501-6479, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen69
Número5
Páginas937-955
Fecha de publicación2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00380261211006325
OpenAlexW3152483625
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas48

Utilizing narrations of urban space derived from interviews with 37 Mixed White and Black Caribbean people in the UK's second-largest city, Birmingham, this article argues that place should be central to the theorization of mixed-race. Whilst Critical Mixed-Race Studies tends to privilege racial identity as the defining feature of the mixed-race experience, this article argues that mixed-race subjects identify with and through their respective localities to cultivate and perform their racialized identities. Drawing on personalized mental maps and routes through the city, the discussion sheds light on how conceptualizations of neighbourhood and territory are entangled with expressions of racial identity and belonging. By showing how the local histories, identities and characters of places come to be written on the bodies of mixed-race subjects, I demonstrate the power that place has in organizing social life and shaping identities. In doing so the article warns against the critical absence of place, and particularly the local, in empirical analyses of mixed-race identity. It suggests that for the development of de-essentialist understandings of mixedness which exist outside the realm of personal identifications, it is necessary to engage critically with place as an analytical framework

Aesthetics · Essentialism · Identity (music) · Locality · Mixed race · Neighbourhood (mathematics) · Place identity · Political science · Privilege (computing) · Race (biology) · Realm · Sociology · Urban planning · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies