Forbidden Love: Controlling Partnerships Across Ethnoracial Boundaries

García, Dan Rodríguez

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“…Spain is an interesting case study because of its historically problematic relationship with diversity. It is in Spain where we can find some of the first detailed constructs of the idea of "race" and "whiteness," dating back to the 13th century (Rodríguez-García 2021, 2022. This racist ideology also underpinned and shaped Spain's colonization of the Americas and of parts of Asia and Africa, with enduring effects.…”

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“…This racist ideology also underpinned and shaped Spain's colonization of the Americas and of parts of Asia and Africa, with enduring effects. During the entire period of Spanish colonization, mixedness was problematized and even prohibited (see Rodríguez-García 2021). This specific history, together with the important contemporary experiences of international immigration and growing "super-diversity" (Vertovec 2007) in Spain, has made this country an important research case for examining ethnic and race relations and questions of social inclusion/exclusion.…”

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Mixedness and Intersectionality: The Use of Relief Maps to Understand the Experiences of Multiracial Women of African Descent in Spain

Habimana-Jordana

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2023

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This article analyzes the experiences of multiracial women of African descent in Catalonia, Spain—looking at their identity processes, social relations, experiences of racialization and discrimination, and strategies of resistance—using a novel qualitative research method called “Relief Maps,” a very useful tool for the study of social inequalities from an intersectional and multilocational perspective. Relief Maps are a data collection tool and a means of visualizing and analyzing data—providing a graphical representation of interviewee narratives that discuss processes of social inclusion and exclusion. The maps represent three dimensions of experience: (1) psychological (indicating the respondent’s level of discomfort or well-being); (2) geographical (including at least five physical or experiential locations: e.g., home, street, work, school); and (3) social (examining seven social variables or aspects of identity: i.e., gender, ethnicity/skin color, age, sexual orientation, social class, physical appearance, and religion). In this way, the maps show where greater or lesser well-being or discomfort is experienced by the respondent based on each aspect of identity, thus indicating personal places of oppression, places of controversial intersections, neutral places, and places of relief. We argue that this supplementary investigative technique is highly relevant to research in the social sciences, particularly in the field of mixed-race, critical race, and ethnic studies, as it provides an intersectional, reflective, nuanced, and contextual lens for understanding complex social phenomena, leading to information of greater analytical strength.

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