Horizontal hostility among historically present Black Irish, African migrants and their ‘Irish-born’ children?

This article examined how Black identity in Ireland is produced through state classification and negotiated among historically present Black Irish communities in relation to African migrants and their ‘Irish-born’ children. Drawing on life-history and ethnographic material, it identified lateral tensions that arise when a single classificatory frame is imposed upon lives formed within divergent historical and generational trajectories. These tensions are located in an Irish racial regime that distributes authenticity according to proximity to whiteness and inherited narratives of origin. Intra-Black differentiation is approached as an effect of unequal identity formation under conditions in which status is allocated through external classification.