1st Edition

Mothering, Mixed Families and Racialised Boundaries

Edited By Ravinder Barn, Vicki Harman Copyright 2014
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA. The growth of the mixed race population reflects an increasingly racially and culturally heterogeneous society, shaped by powerful forces of globalisation and migration. Mixed family formations are becoming increasingly... Read more

1. Introduction Ravinder Barn and Vicki Harman

2. ‘Doing the right thing’: transracial adoption in the USA Ravinder Barn

3. The experiences of race in the lives of Jewish birth mothers of children from black/white interracial and inter-religious relationships: a Canadian perspective Channa C. Verbian

4. Researching white mothers of mixed-parentage children: the significance of investigating whiteness Joanne Britton

5. Social capital and the informal support networks of lone white mothers of mixed-parentage children Vicki Harman

6. Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: a story of white working class mothers with mixed-race children Lisa McKenzie

Biography

Ravinder Barn is Professor of Social Policy at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She has published widely into the areas of ‘race’, ethnicity and children and families.

Vicki Harman is Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Drawing on her PhD research, she has written several papers about the situation of white mothers in mixed families.