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Tyner J A, 2002, "Narrating interracial relations and the negotiation of public spaces" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20(4) 441 – 458
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Narrating interracial relations and the negotiation of public spaces

James A Tyner

Received 14 May 2001; in revised form 1 October 2001

Abstract. Although interracial (hetero)sexual relations are no longer illegal, and the number of visible, consensual interracial partnerships has increased, there still remains a discourse against these social arrangements circulating in the United States that continues to bear the traces of the history of antimiscegenation. The purpose of this paper is to examine the everyday negotiation of public spaces of an African-American man as he participates in interracial (hetero)sexual relations. With a theoretical debt to both Lefebvre and de Certeau, and employing a narrative approach, I highlight the complex interactions of race, gender, and sexuality, and how these are manifest spatially. Through this narrative, moreover, I demonstrate how resistance to one form of hegemony (racism) may simultaneously contribute to the augmentation of other forms of dominance (patriarchy).

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