Exploring the complexities of mixed race in Britain and the USA, Rethinking 'Mixed Race' offers a broader and more pluralistic approach to the discussion.
One of the fastest growing ethnic populations in many Western societies is that of people of mixed descent. However, when talking about multicultural societies or ‘mixed race’, the discussion usually focuses on people of black and white heritage. The contributors to this collection rectify this with a broad and pluralistic approach to the experiences of 'mixed race' people in Britain and the USA. The contributors argue that people of mixed descent reveal the arbitrary and contested logic of categorisation underpinning racial divisions. Falling outside the prevailing definitions of racialised identities, their histories and experiences illuminate the complexities of identity formation in the contemporary multicultural context. The authors examine a range of issues. These include gender; transracial and intercountry adoptions in Britain and the US; interracial partnering and marriage; ‘mixed race’ and family in the English-African diaspora; theorising of ‘mixed race’ that transcends the black/white binary and includes explorations of 'mixtures' among non-white minority groups; and the social and political evolution of multiracial panethnicity.
Introduction: Rethinking `Mixed Race 1(23) David Parker Miri Song How Sociology Imagined `Mixed Race 23(19) Frank Furedi Re-Membering `Race: On Gender, `Mixed Race and Family in the English-African Diaspora 42(23) Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe Same Difference: Towards a More Unified Discourse in `Mixed Race Theory 65(11) Minelle Mahtani April Moreno The Subject is Mixed Race: The Boom in Biracial Biography 76(23) Paul Spickard Triples - The Social Evolution of a Multiracial Panethnicity: An Asian American Perspective 99(18) Laurie M. Mengel Colour, Culture and Class: Interrogating Interracial Marriage and People of Mixed Racial Descent in the USA 117(17) Stephen Small `Mixed Race in Official Statistics 134(20) Charlie Owen Learning to Do Ethnic Identity: The Transracial/Transethnic Adoptive Family As Site And Context 154(19) Barbara Ballis Lal `Im a Blonde-haired, Blue-eyed Black Girl: Mapping Mobile Paradoxical Spaces among Multiethnic Women in Toronto, Canada 173(18) Minelle Mahtani Contributors 191(3) Index 194
David Parker is a lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham. Miri Song is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Kent at Canterbury.
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