Rethinking 'mixed race' / edited by David Parker and Miri Song.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, David, 1967 January 22-

Song, Miri, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people.

Physical Description:

201 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring the complexities of mixed race in Britain and the USA, Rethinking 'Mixed Race' offers a broader and more pluralistic approach to the discussion.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Rethinking 'Mixed Race'

From Pathologisation to Celebration

Towards a Complex Ontology

An Agenda for Rethinking Mixed Race

Notes

1. How Sociology Imagined 'Mixed Race'

White Racial Fears

The Marginal Man

Anglo- American Cross-Fertilisation of Ideas

Holding the Line

2. Re-Membering 'Race': On Gender, 'Mixed Race' and Family in the English-African Diaspora

Beginnings: The Problematics of Race

'Hybridity' and the Paradoxes of Race

Englishness and Normalised Whiteness

The English- African Diaspora and Essentialised Blackness

Scattered Belongings and the 'Half-Life' of the 'Mixed Race' Subject

Parting Thoughts

Acknowledgements

3. Same Difference: Towards a More Unified Discourse in Mixed Race Theory

4. The Subject is Mixed Race: The Boom in Biracial Biography

The Black Person in a White Body

A Tragic Mulatto Still

Celebration of Mixedness

Monoracialist Reaction

Not Everyone is Part Black

Interpretations

Multiplicity in a Postmodern Context

5. Triples - The Social Evolution of a Multiracial Panethnicity: An Asian American Perspective

The Arbitrariness of Race

Fractional Representation of Mixed Race People

Asian American Panethnicity

Political Organisations

The 'You Are Both' Fiction

Acceptance from Monoracial Minorities?

Multiracial Collectivity

6. Colour, Culture and Class: Interrogating Interracial Marriage and People of Mixed Racial Descent in the USA

Patterns of Racialised Dating, Marriage and People of Mixed Origins

The Discursive Terrains of Race Mixture

Race Purity

Economism and Bureaucracy

Consumerism

Carnal Delight

Individualism and Personal Rights

'Race Mixture' and the Social Fabric of the USA

A Way Forward

Conclusion.

Acknowledgements

7. 'Mixed Race' in Official Statistics

Official Statistics

The 1991 Census Question

How The 1991 Census Handled Mixed Parentage

What We Know about Mixed Parentage from the 1991 Census

The 2001 Census Question

Conclusions

8. Learning to Do Ethnic Identity: The Transracial/ Transethnic Adoptive Family as Site and Context

The Essentialist Concept of Ethnic Identity

Ethnic Identity as Learned Culture

The Mixed- Race/ Mixed- Ethnic Adoptive Family as Site and Context

Conclusion

9. 'I'm a Blonde-haired, Blue-eyed Black Girl': Mapping Mobile Paradoxical Spaces among Multi-ethnic Women in Toronto, C

Discourses on the Multiethnic Experience

Methodology

Gillian Rose: Paradoxical Space

Elspeth Probyn: Outside Belongings

Mapping Mobile Paradoxical Spaces

Contributors

Index

adoption

age at time of 154

age at time of 156

age at time of 157

age at time of 166

and learning ethnic identity, 159-62

centrality of families to, 162-6

centrality of families to, 167

essentialist models of ethnic identity in, 15

essentialist models of ethnic identity in, 154

essentialist models of ethnic identity in, 155-9

essentialist models of ethnic identity in, 167

intercountry, 157-8

intercountry, 167

advertising, mixed race in

122

123-4

Affirmative Action, abolished 127

African Caribbeans, interracial marriage rates

2

135

African diasporas

13

49

Africans, under colonialism

28

30-1

32-3

36

alliances, across boundaries

72-3

186

American Journal of Sociology

31

34

Anglo-Indian, stereotype of

37

Anzaldúa, Gloria, Borderlands/La Frontera 90

apartheid 24-5

Asian Americans.

interracial marriage rates, 2

interracial marriage rates, 91

interracial marriage rates, 92

interracial marriage rates, 103

interracial marriage rates, 114n

interracial marriage rates, 118-19

panethnicity of, 102-3

Asian Immigrant Workers Association 103

Asian Law Caucus 103

Association of Black Social Workers and Allied Professionals [UK] 158

Association of Multiethnic Americans [AMEA]

76

104

125

163

autobiography, and ethnic identity 93

Babcock, Winnefred Eaton

88

106

belonging, use of term 183-4

Bhabha, Homi, cultural hybridity 93-4

Bible, claimed by White supremacists 121

biracial biography 77-9

Biracial Family Network of Chicago 104

Black

choice of identity as, 85

choice of identity as, 86-7

choice of identity as, 105

as political affiliation, 56

as political affiliation, 79

strategic identification as, 57

strategic identification as, 59

Black Americans, intermarriage rates

91

92

118

119

black/white colour line

66-7

85-7

and biracial biography, 77-9

Blackness

additive, 57-8

compulsory, 56-7

compulsory, 156

construction of, 13

construction of, 42

essentialised, 48-9

in America, 48

in America, 99

in Britain, 47-8

in Britain, 65

Blade [film] 123

Boateng, Paul, MP 156

boundaries

alliances across, 72-3

and fear of social invasion, 35-7

crossing of, 186

geographical, 99

historical definitions of, 99

of belonging, 48

of belonging, 183

BRANCH [Biracial and Natural Children] 106

Brazil 129

Bristol mixed race project 50-8

British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering [BAAF] 157

Broyard, Anatole 80-1

Buell, Raymond, 'The Native Problem in Africa' 29

bureaucracy 122

Canada, official multiculturalism 68.

Carnegie Corporation

23

The Poor White Problem in South Africa, 26-7

Child International 106

child welfare professionals, and adoption

15

154

155-9

167

children

choice of identity 105-6

choice of identity 136

choice of identity 137

choice of identity 161-2

interests of, 154

interests of, 168

multiracial, 54-5

multiracial, 85-7

multiracial, 105

Children's Act [1989] 156

Chinese-Americans 88-9

cities 119

class

17

44

46

129

130

and identity formation, 162

and identity formation, 164-5

and marriage rates [US], 118-19

and mixed race inferiority, 36-7

and social mobility, 70-1

effect on multiethnic experience, 177

Mixed Race Movement, 126

class analysis 128

colonialism, indirect rule policy

Commission for Racial Equality [CRE] 149

communities [monoracial/ethnic], and acceptance of mixed race members

70-1

73

107-10

conditional acceptance 109-10

connections

across boundaries, 72-3

creation of, 184

creation of, 185-6

consumerism, mixed race discourse 122-4

Copeland, Lewis C. 37-8

Crookshank, Francis Graham 101

cultural insecurity, of 'marginal man'

27-8

34-5

cultural practices

16

traditional, 30

traditional, 31

dating, interracial

Department of Health [UK] 156

diasporas, African

discursive terrains 120-1

dissonance

166

in adoptive families, 163-4

double consciousness [DuBois] 53

Dover, Cedric, Half-Caste [1937] 38

Eaton, Edith Maude

economism and bureaucracy 122

editors, view of mixed race books 90-1

education

as handicap to colonial Africans, 27-8

as handicap to colonial Africans, 31-2

and marriage rates, 118-19

English-African diaspora

13.

and essentialised Blackness, 48-9

Englishness

as synonymous with Whiteness, 48

definitions of, 46-7

ethnic identity

choice of, 92

choice of, 165

and ethnic origins, 151

as inherited culture, 156

as inherited culture, 157-8

as learned culture, 15

as learned culture, 159-62

essentialist models of 15

essentialist models of 155-9

essentialist models of 167

factors in, 167

ethnic minorities

empowerment of, 159

exclusion of mixed race members, 70-1

exclusion of mixed race members, 73

exclusion of mixed race members, 107-10

views on mixed marriages, 135-6

views on mixed marriages, 150

ethnic origins 151

ethnicity 173

eugenics movement

101

113n

family

70

advantages of stability, 158-9

as site of identity formation, 162-6

as site of identity formation, 167

dissonance in adoptive, 163-4

lineages, 10

lineages, 16

norm of nuclear, 106

norm of nuclear, 154

feminism

72

and geography, 179

and geography, 180-1

Filipinos, multiracial history

111

116n

films, mixed race in 123

Funderburg, Lise, Black, White, Other 83

Gates, Henry Louis, on Anatole Broyard

80-1

94

gender

genetic variation 4-5

geography, human 174

Gingrich, Newt 127

Ginsberg, Morris, The Psychology of Society [1921] 30

government policies

on adoption, 156-7

on adoption, 167-8

multiculturalism, 68

on race and mixed race, 23-5

use of official statistics, 15

use of official statistics, 104

use of official statistics, 149-50

Grant, Bernie, MP 149

Great Britain

adoption policies, 156-7

adoption policies, 167-8

age of mixed race population, 136-8.

age of mixed race population, 137.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849640688

1849640688

9780585425757

0585425752

OCLC:

50791811