Mixed-race blackness in fiction destabilizes Latinx categories that deny blackness.

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s own Earlier-materials on mestizaje and the racial logics that partition Latinx from Black identity categories. — connects to: Latinx communities’ anti-Blackness makes AfroLatinx members feel inferior and unwanted. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 110
• SEED: Angle on how mixed-race literary characters expose the Latinx/Black boundary as an ideological partition rather than a demographic fact.