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"You think you're Black?" Exploring Black mixed-race experiences of Black rejection

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ID2148140
AuthorsKaris Campion (0000-0002-8501-6479, University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume42
Issue16
Pages196-213
Publication date2019-12-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2019.1642503
OpenAlexW2958323015
LanguageEN
Citations received43
References cited37

Utilizing interview data with thirty-seven British people of Mixed White and Black Caribbean heritage, this paper draws upon the concept of "horizontal hostility" to describe how Black mixed-race experiences of Black rejection impact on self-perceptions and expressed ethnic identities. In demonstrating the effects of being excluded from a relatable collective Black identity, the paper argues that horizontal hostility is critical in the project of theorizing mixed-race. Experiences of horizontal hostility represent significant turning points in mixed-race lives as they can prompt reconsiderations of mixed-race positionings within the broader Black imagined space. Beyond the benefits that horizontal hostility offers to mixed-race studies, it provides insights into conceptualisations of Blackness - as a collective racial identity, community and politics. The article unpacks how, when and why its boundaries are policed, adding to debates relating to the future formation and maintenance of ethnic group identities and categories more generally

Aesthetics · Collective identity · Ethnic group · Hostility · Identity (music · Mixed race · Perception · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
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