1st Edition

International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

People from a ‘mixed’ or ‘inter’ racial and ethnic background, and people partnering and parenting across different racial and ethnic backgrounds, are of increasing political, public and intellectual interest internationally. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection interrogate notions of mixedness and mixing, and challenge stereotypical assumptions. They advance debates in the field... Read more

1. Introduction to Mixedness and Mixing  Rosalind Edwards, Miri Song, Chamion Caballero and Suki Ali  2. Multiraciality and Census Classification in Global Perspective Ann Morning  3. Mixed-race Across Time and Place – Contrasting the UK and Australia  Ilan Katz  4. From ‘Draughtboard Alley’ to ‘Brown Britain’: The ‘Ordinariness’ of Racial Mixing and Mixedness in British Society  Chamion Caballero  5. When Ethnicity Became an Important Family Issue: The Case of Slovenian  Istria Mateja Sedmak  6. Constructing Multiraciality in US Families and Neighbourhoods  Steven R. Holloway, Richard Wright and Mark Ellis  7. Finding Value on a Council Estate: Voices of White Mothers of Mixed-Race Children in St Anns, Nottingham  Lisa McKenzie  8. A Descriptive Account of Those Self-Identifying as of Mixed Ethnicity in Great Britain  Lucinda Platt  9. ‘Mixed race’ Young People’s Differential Responses to Misrecognition in Britain Miri Song and Peter Aspinall  10. How National Context Shapes International Comparison of ‘Mixed’ People: The Example of German, French and British Large-Scale Survey Datasets  Anne Unterreiner  11. Notes on Mixed Race Methodologies: A Critical Auto-Analysis of the Research Process in A Qualitative Mixed Race Study  Minelle Mahtani  12. Situating Mixed Race Politics  Suki Ali

Biography

Rosalind Edwards is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK.

Suki Ali is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK.

Chamion Caballero is Senior Research Fellow at London South Bank University, UK.

Miri Song is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK.