Citation

Long L, Joseph-Salisbury R. Ethn. Racial Stud. 2019; 42(2): 198-215.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01419870.2017.1417618

PMID

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Abstract

For black people in Britain, policing has long been a site of oppression and resistance. Whilst substantive change has been lacking, institutional racism within the British police has at least been acknowledged. Concomitantly, Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) has shown that much of the race and ethnicity literature ignores the experiences of mixed-race populations. In this paper, we utilize two studies to consider black mixed-race men's perceptions and experience of policing in Britain. In total, we draw upon interviews with 17 black mixed-race men. Whilst we recognize that their experiences are often homogenized with blackness, in the context of police contact, we show that many black mixed-race men believe they are seen as part of a black monolith. We conclude that, in this context, mixedness does not bring about clearly differentiated experiences from that of black men. The absence of clear particularities to mixedness is of significance to CMRS.

Language: en

Keywords

black masculinity; black mixed-race men; Critical Mixed Race Studies; policing; Race; racism