Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and 'Post-Racial' Resilience

This book explores the experiences of Black mixed-race men in the UK and the US, highlighting the lack of attention paid to their specific experiences. It draws on theories of performativity and hybridity to understand how they constitute and reconstitute complex identities, challenging popular representations that pathologize them. The book offers an in-depth insight into a previously neglected area of scholarship.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 240 pages
\n Publication date: 06 August 2018
\n Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
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Winner of the 2018 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, this book explores the unique experiences of mixed-race men, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. Despite growing recognition of the intersection of race and gender, there has been a notable lack of attention to the specific experiences of mixed-race men. By centering the accounts of Black mixed-race men, this book offers a timely intervention that extends the theoretical terrain of race and ethnicity scholarship and studies of gender and masculinities. Drawing upon theories of performativity and hybridity, the book examines how Black mixed-race men constitute and reconstitute complex and multiplicitous identities. In the context of 'post-racial conditions,' where the significance of race and racism is rendered invisible and denied, Black mixed-race men engage in processes of identity formation and reconstruction. This study introduces the concept of 'post-racial resilience' to capture and celebrate the contemporary, creative, and innovative ways in which Black mixed-race men refuse fragmentation and erasure of their identities. By focusing on the everyday through discussions of racial symbolism, experiences of racial microaggressions, and interactions with peers, Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity, and Post-Racial Resilience provides an in-depth insight into a previously neglected area of scholarship.

\n Weight: 470g\n
Dimension: 161 x 239 x 21 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781787565326\n \n