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Making Mixed Race (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity) - Hardcover

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Campion, Karis

 
9780367462918: Making Mixed Race (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0367462915 ISBN 13: 9780367462918
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

By examining Black mixed-race identities in the city through a series of historical vantage points, Making Mixed Race provides in-depth insights into the geographical and historical contexts that shape the possibilities and constraints for identifications.

Whilst popular representations of mixed-race often conceptualise it as a contemporary phenomenon and are couched in discourses of futurity, this book dislodges it from the current moment to explore its emergence as a racialised category, and personal identity, over time. In addition to tracing the temporality of mixed-race, the contributions show the utility of place as an analytical tool for mixed-race studies. The conceptual framework for the book – place, time, and personal identity – offers a timely intervention to the scholarship that encourages us to look outside of individual subjectivities and critically examine the structural contexts that shape Black mixed-race lives.

The book centres around the life histories of 37 people of Mixed White and Black Caribbean heritage born between 1959 and 1994, in Britain’s second-largest city, Birmingham. The intimate life portraits of mixed identity reveal how colourism, family, school, gender, whiteness, racism, and resistance, have been experienced against the backdrop of post-war immigration, Thatcherism, the ascendency of Black diasporic youth cultures, and contemporary post-race discourses. It will be of interest to researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students who work on (mixed) race and ethnicity studies in academic areas including geographies of race, youth identities/cultures, gender, colonial legacies, intersectionality, racism, and colourism.

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About the Author

Karis Campion is a Legacy in Action Research Fellow at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University. Her main research interests span areas of (mixed) race/ethnic identity and geographies of race in urban space.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367462915
ISBN 13 
9780367462918
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176