Mixed-race blackness destabilizes both black and Latino literary categories

Evidence

Senna provides new meanings in the construction of border identities through black mixture and illustrates how blackness is linked to mestizaje by virtue of its myriad ethnoracial compositions, coupled with the legacies of violence of how these colors came to be racially marked. When mixed blackness is penned into the “black” novel, it does not only destabilize the meanings of what “pure” blackness entails, but also the meanings of Latina and Latino literary and cultural projects that overlook blackness because “Latina” and “Latino” is misread and misunderstood as “not black.” — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2486 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Latinidad and Blackness are socially constructed as mutually exclusive — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 115; Deconstructing blackness as fiction does nothing to shift racial power relations — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 64; Mixed-race blackness in fiction destabilizes Latinx categories that deny blackness. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2486 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Mixed-race blackness in fiction destabilizes Latinx categories that deny blackness. #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2486