Making Mixed Race: A Study Of Time, Place And Identity (Routledge Research In Race And Ethnicity) - 9781032139326
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ISBN13:
9781032139326
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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--
- | Author: Karis Campion
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: May 31, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 168 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1032139323
- | ISBN-13: 9781032139326
- Author:
- Karis Campion
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- May 31, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 168 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1032139323
- ISBN-13:
- 9781032139326