International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing

✍ Scribed by Rosalind Edwards (editor), Suki Ali (editor), Chamion Caballero (editor), Miri Song (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Series: (Relationships and Resources)
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 through illuminating the complexity of specific historical trajectories, administrative practices and lived experience.

Recurrent themes woven throughout the chapters include:

• boundaries and categorisation in terms of administration and government, and also of lived experience
• the explicit and implicit politics of mixedness and mixing in terms of nation state interests, agenda and policies, as well as ‘on the ground’ social relations
• the ways that mixedness and mixing shift in meaning and implications across time and place, shaped by different national, regional and or local contexts.

This volume shows that who is and is not ‘mixed’ is contested and understandings of mixedness and mixing, however conceived, need to be situated in the larger complex of ideas about race and its classification. International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing is an invaluable book for students and scholars of race and ethnicity.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
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Contents
List of Figures
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Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Approaches to racial and ethnic mixedness and mixing
2 Multiraciality and census classification in global perspective
3 Mixed race across time and place: Contrasting Australia with the UK
4 From ‘Draughtboard Alley’ to ‘Brown Britain’: The ‘ordinariness’ of racial mixing and mixedness in British society
5 When ethnicity became an important family issue: The case of Slovenian Istria
6 Constructing multiraciality in US families and neighbourhoods
7 Finding value on a council estate: Voices of white mothers with mixed-race children in St Anns, Nottingham
8 A descriptive account of those self-identifying as of mixed ethnicity in Great Britain
9 ‘Mixed-race’ young people’s differential responses to misrecognition in Britain
10 How national context shapes international comparison of ‘mixed’ people: The example of German, French and British large-scale survey datasets
11 Not the same difference: Notes on mixed-race methodologies
12 Situating mixed race politics
Index