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  • Which box do second generation mixed race people fit into?

    Boxed out by existing terminology, some people of different racial mixes have come up with their own creative but slightly awkward descriptions, such as “blasian” (black and Asian), “blackanese” (black and Chinese, Vietnamese or Japanese), “blindian” (black and Indian), or Tiger Woods’s inventive “cablinasian” (Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian).

  • Generational change and how we conceptualize and measure multiracial people and “mixture”

    With demographic changes such as generational change, who counts as multiracial or mixed race? This question has yet to receive significant attention. Although mixing is becoming more commonplace, the question of who counts as multiracial is far from straightforward, especially as we look down the generational pipeline.

  • Multiracial Parents: Mixed Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race

    The views and experiences of multiracial people as parents

  • Multiracial People and the Socialization of Their Children in Britain

    Multiracial People and the Socialization of Their Children in Britain The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 14:15 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 31 Oral Presentation Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United…

  • Toward building a conceptual framework on intermarriage

    Toward building a conceptual framework on intermarriage Ethnicities Volume 16, Number 4, August 2016 pages 497-520 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638402 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmö University, Sweden; Sophia University, Japan Nahikari Irastorza, Marie Curie Research Fellow Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity, and Welfare Malmö University, Sweden Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent,…

  • Multiracial people and their partners in Britain: Extending the link between intermarriage and integration?

    Multiracial people and their partners in Britain: Extending the link between intermarriage and integration? Ethnicities Published online 2016-03-21 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638399 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom There are now a growing number of studies on intermarriage in Western multi-ethnic societies, especially in countries with post-colonial migrants (and their descendants).…

  • Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives

    Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Cambridge University Press January 2015 Paperback ISBN: 9780521154260 Edited by: Karim Murji, Senior Lecturer in Sociology The Open University, United Kingdom John Solomos, Professor of Sociology University of Warwick, United Kingdom How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades…

  • What Constitutes Intermarriage for Multiracial People in Britain?

    What Constitutes Intermarriage for Multiracial People in Britain? The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 662, Number 1, November 2015 pages 94-111 DOI: 10.1177/0002716215595387 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom Intermarriage is of great interest to analysts because a group’s tendency to partner across…

  • The colour black, Mixed-race people

    The colour black, Mixed-race people Thinking Allowed BBC Radio 4 2015-07-22 Laurie Taylor, Host Black: the cultural and historical meaning of the darkest colour. From the ‘little black dress’ which epitomises chic, to its links to death, depression and evil, ‘black’ embodies many contrasting values. White Europeans exploited the negative associations of ‘black’ in enslaving…

  • Douglas Todd: Mixed unions applauded by some, but dismissed by others as brownwashing

    Douglas Todd: Mixed unions applauded by some, but dismissed by others as brownwashing The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2015-07-24 Douglass Todd, Vancouver Sun columnist Ethnically mixed couples — involving whites, blacks, Japanese, Hispanics, Chinese, South Asians or others — were heralded not long ago as the wave of a tolerant, open, non-racist future.…