Elaborating a Conceptual Framework for the (Im)Possibilities of Racialized Belonging Among Black Mixed-Race Youth

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Abstract

The current paper builds on a conceptual framework for racialized belonging among Black Mixed-Race (BMR) youth proposed by the authors that adapted psychologist Kelly-Ann Allen and colleagues’ (2021) integrative framework of belonging and put it in conversation with sociologist and political theorist Nira Yuval-Davis’s (2006) analytic framework for the study of belonging and the politics of belonging. The current paper turns to how multiracial identity, the politics of multiraciality, and racialized spaces are related to BMR youth’s Competencies for and Motivations for belonging.

Authors

• Fabienne Doucet, New York University

• Joy Howard, Appalachian State University