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‘You think you’re black?’ Exploring black mixed-race experiences of black rejection

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Campion, Karis·2019·Ethnic and Racial Studies
DOI 10.1080/01419870.2019.1642503
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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.

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  • The systematic racism, sexism and colourism experienced by darker skinned Black women can create frustrations which, in some cases, can result in 'interpersonal conflict' with Black mixed race women.

    “Campion argued that “the systematic racism, sexism and colourism experienced by darker skinned Black women can create frustrations which, in some cases, can result in ‘interpersonal conflict’ with Black mixed race women.””

    From Skin shade and relationships: how colourism pits Black and mixed Black-White women against each other (2024) · cites this paper as Campion, 2019

  • Black and mixed Black-White women can be drawn into competition for male attention.

    “This is consistent with Campion (2019), who asserted that Black and mixed Black-White women can be drawn into competition for male attention.”

    From Skin shade and relationships: how colourism pits Black and mixed Black-White women against each other (2024) · cites this paper as Campion, 2019

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Authors
Campion, K.
Affiliations
University of Manchester (GB)
Corresponding author
Campion, Karis
ORCID
Campion, Karis
Venue
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2019-08-05
Volume
42
Issue
16
Pages
196-213
ISSN
  • 0141-9870 (ISSN-L)
  • 1466-4356
DOI
10.1080/01419870.2019.1642503
OpenAlex
W2958323015
Cited by
60
References
53
Citations by year
2026: 13 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 1
FWCI
11.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Ethnic and Racial Studies (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/R009341/1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Cultural Identity and Representation
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
Keywords
mixed-race identity, Black Caribbean, Blackness, ethnic identity, self-perception, racial exclusion, ethnic categories

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