{"id":20740,"date":"2012-02-17T20:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20740"},"modified":"2015-07-25T03:04:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T03:04:51","slug":"is-racial-mismatch-a-problem-for-young-%e2%80%98mixed-race%e2%80%99-people-in-britain-the-findings-of-qualitative-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20740","title":{"rendered":"Is racial mismatch a problem for young \u2018mixed race\u2019 people in Britain? The findings of qualitative research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1468796811434912\" target=\"_blank\">Is racial mismatch a problem for young \u2018mixed race\u2019 people in Britain? The findings of qualitative research<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnicities<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\/content\/12\/6.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 12, Number 6<\/a> (December 2012)<br \/>\npages 730-753<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1468796811434912\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1468796811434912<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/s\/song-miri.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miri Song<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent, UK<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/CHSS\/about\/staff\/aspinall.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Aspinall<\/a><\/strong>, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent, UK<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recent evidence concerning the racial identifications of \u2018mixed race\u2019 people suggests growing latitude in how they may identify. In this article, we examine whether mixed race young people believe that their chosen identifications are validated by others, and how they respond to others\u2019 racial perceptions of them. While existing studies tend to assume that a disjuncture between self-identification and others\u2019 perceptions of them is problematic, this was not necessarily the case among our respondents. While a racial mismatch between expressed and observed identifications was a common experience for these individuals, they varied considerably in terms of how they responded to such occurrences, so that they could feel: (1) misrecognized (and there were differential bases and experiences of misrecognition); (2) positive about the mismatch; or (3) indifferent to how others racially categorized them in their day-to-day interactions. Some differences in responses to such mismatch emerged among disparate types of mixed people. This study also found that we need to consider national identity, and other forms of belonging, in making sense of the diverse and often multilayered identifications and experiences of mixed race young people in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/etn.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2012\/02\/09\/1468796811434912.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is racial mismatch a problem for young \u2018mixed race\u2019 people in Britain? The findings of qualitative research Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 6 (December 2012) pages 730-753 DOI: 10.1177\/1468796811434912 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, UK Peter Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK Recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,10],"tags":[994,515,61,1877],"class_list":["post-20740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-ethnicities","tag-miri-song","tag-peter-aspinall","tag-peter-j-aspinall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41935,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20740\/revisions\/41935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}