Black Mixed-Race Men
Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience
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Winner of the 2018 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.
Whilst scholarship has increasingly moved to consider mixedness and the experiences of mixed-race people, there has been a notable lack of attention to the specific experiences of mixed-race men. This is despite growing recognition of the particular ways race and gender intersect. By centring the accounts of Black mixed-race men in the United Kingdom and United States, this book offers a timely intervention that extends the theoretical terrain of race and ethnicity scholarship and of studies of gender and masculinities. As it treads new and important ground, this book draws upon theories of performativity and hybridity in order to understand how Black mixed-race men constitute and reconstitute complex and multiplicitous identities. ‘Post-racial’ conditions mean that Black mixed-race men engage in such processes in a context where the significance of race and racism is rendered invisible and denied. By introducing the theoretical concept of ‘post-racial’ resilience, this study strives to capture and celebrate the contemporary, creative and innovative ways in which Black mixed-race men refuse the fragmentation and erasure of their identities. As it does so, the author offers a corrective to popular representations that have too readily pathologized Black mixed-race men. Focusing on the everyday through a discussion of Black mixed-race men’s racial symbolism, experiences of racial microaggressions, and interactions with peers, Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and Post-Racial Resilience offers an in-depth insight into a previously neglected area of scholarship.
Chapter 1. Multiplicitous Black Mixed-Race Men and 'Post-Racial' Resilience: Double-Consciousness, Hybridity and the Threat of Racial Mismatch; Chapter 2. Constituting and Performing Black Mixed-Race Masculinities: Hybridizing the Exotic, the Black Monster, and the 'Light-Skin Softie'; Chapter 3. Racial Symbolism and the Stylization of Identities: Dress, Speech, Hair and Music; Chapter 4. Black Mixed-Race Men and PRR in the Face of Racial Microaggressions; Chapter 5. Black Mixed-Race Men, Friendships, Peer Groups, and Black Regulatory Ideals; Conclusion. A Critical (Mixed) Race Theory of 'Post-Racial' Resilience (PRR).
Offering a corrective to pervasive pathological myths that surround understandings of the lives of Black mixed-race men, Joseph-Salisbury argues that through the ceaseless process of hybridization, and the utilization of various forms of cultural capital, Black mixed-race men develop the post-racial resilience necessary to withstand threats of identity erasure. Among his topics are constituting and performing Black mixed-race masculinities: hybridizing the exotic, the Black monster, and the light-skin softie; racial symbolism and the stylization of identities: dress, speech, hair, and music; and friendships, peer groups, and Black regulatory ideals.