1st Edition
Mixed-Race, Post-Race Gender, New Ethnicities and Cultural Practices
By Suki Ali
Copyright 2003
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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Social scientists claim that we now live in a post-race society, where race has been replaced by 'ethnicity'. Yet racism is endemic to British society and people often think in terms of black and white. With a marked rise in the number of children from mixed parentage, there is an urgent need to challenge simplistic understandings of 'race', nation and culture, and interrogate what it means to... Read more
Acknowledgements, 1. ‘Where Do You Come From?’, 2. Researching the Unresearchable, 3. Reading Popular Culture: Same Ideas, Different Bodies, 4. Ambiguous Images: Relating ‘Mixed-Race’ Selves to Others, 5. Creating Families Through Cultural Practices, 6. Moving Homes: Gender, Diaspora, Ethnicity, 7. Discourses of Race and Racism in Schools, 8. ‘Mixed-Race’ Futures, Appendix, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Suki Ali Sociology Department, London School of Economics.
"An admirable, indeed heart-warming, book. - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies The books conceptual arguments are both persuasive and provocative. Ali introduces theoretical questions with economy and clarity, speaking equally well to scholars and researchers and to educators, activists and parents. While it is theoretically sophisticated and methodologically innovative, this book should gain wide circulation beyond the academy, particularly among teachers - Kari Dehli, University of Toronto Ali has certainly identified a topic worth pursuing, and her insistence on 'post-race' thinkign and theorizing to 'de-recognize ""race"" even as we try to undermine it' is to be applauded and encouraged. - Royal Anthropological Institute"
