Hybridity names the cultural logic of translation, not mixed racial composition.

Evidence

One term which has been used to characterize the increasingly mixed and diasporic cultures of such communities is “hybridity.” Its meaning, however, has been widely misunderstood. Hybridity is not a reference to the mixed racial composition of population. It is really another term for the cultural logic of translation. This logic is increasingly evident in the multicultural diasporas and other mixed and minority communities of the postcolonial world. New and old diasporas governed by this ambivalent, inside/outside position are to be found everywhere. It defines the combined and uneven cultural logic of the way so-called Western “modernity” has impacted on the rest of the world ever since the onset of Europe’s globalizing project (Hall 1996a). — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 348

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explicitly defines hybridity against the common racial-mixing misreading, establishing the core conceptual distinction centrally needed for the Islamophobia toolkit.
• XREF: The inside/outside ambivalent diasporic position directly sets up Hall’s own later essays on the ‘West and the Rest’ and the construction of cultural identity; also dovetails with Bhabha’s Third Space work the chapter cites.