Category: United Kingdom

  • Focusing on mixed-race and inter-ethnic families, this book not only explores current understandings of ‘race’, but it shows, using innovative research techniques with children, how we come to read race.

  • Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons The Women’s Press 2001 336 pages 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 0704347067; ISBN-13: 978-0704347069 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s new book offers the sharpest and most informed insight yet on mixed-race Britain. Opening with an historical perspective, she traces up to the twenty-first century the…

  • Teaching and Learning Guide for: Ethnographic approaches to race, genetics and genealogy Sociology Compass Volume 3 Issue 5 Pages 847 – 852 2009-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00231.x Katharine Tyler, Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity University of Surrey Over the last 20 years, there has been a technological advance and commercial boom in genetic technologies and projects. These…

  • Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture Routledge 2000-08-24 320 pages Trim Size: 234×156 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-19402-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-19403-7 Edited by Avtar Brah, Professor in Sociology Birbek University of London Annie Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture Birkbeck University of London Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of ‘hybridity’ –…

  • Salt-sweat & Tears Cinnamon Press March 2007 80 pages 21 x 14 x 0.8 cm Paperback ISBN 10: 1905614187; ISBN-13: 978-1905614189 Louisa Adjoa Parker Of Ghanaian-British descent Louisa Adjoa Parker explores issues of identity, belonging, family and relationships in raw, honest, but crafted pieces. Mulatto Girl See the mulatto girl walking down country lanes and…

  • A Contested Identity: An Exploration of the Competing Social and Political Discourse Concerning the Identification and Positioning of Young People of Inter-Racial Parentage British Journal of Social Work Volume 36, Number 8 (2006) pages 1309-1324 DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bch390 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London Vicki Harman, Lecturer in…

  • Understanding the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Pupils University of Bristol June 2004 ISBN: 1844782646 121 pages Leon Tikly, Professor in Education and Deputy Director of Research University of Bristol Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Jo Haynes, Lecturer in Sociology University of Bristol John Hill…

  • Parenting ‘mixed’ children: difference and belonging in mixed race and faith families Joseph Rowntree Foundaton 2008-06-20 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University  Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families and Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Shuby Puthussery, Senior Research Fellow Family and Parenting…

  • When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a “Caublinasian”, affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created.  This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms ‘Black’ or ‘White’.

  • Black, White or Mixed Race? Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage, 2nd Edition Routledge an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 2001-11-22 272 pages ISBN: 978-0-415-25982-8 Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback) Trim Size: 216 x 138 Ann Phoenix, Professor and Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit…