{"id":2343,"date":"2009-10-21T04:28:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T04:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2017-02-22T02:12:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T02:12:31","slug":"scattered-belongings-cultural-paradoxes-of-race-nation-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of Race, Nation and Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/Scattered-Belongings-isbn9780415170963\" target=\"_blank\">Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of Race, Nation and Gender<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\" target=\"_blank\">Routledge<\/a> an imprint of the Taylor &amp; Francis Group<br \/>\n1999-01-14<br \/>\n240 pages<br \/>\n234&#215;156 mm<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-415-17096-3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaas.duke.edu\/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2FAAAS&amp;Uil=joi&amp;subpage=profile\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe<\/strong><\/a>, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Duke University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/Scattered-Belongings-isbn9780415170963\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/weblarge\/978041517\/9780415170963.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the American golfer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiger_Woods\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> proclaimed himself a &#8220;Caublinasian&#8221;, affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created.\u00a0 This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms &#8216;Black&#8217; or &#8216;White&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This is a unique and radical study. It interweaves the stories of six women of mixed African\/African Caribbean and white European heritage with an analysis of the concepts of hybridity and mixed race identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Illustrations<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Prologue<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Acknowledgements<\/em><\/li>\n<li>1. Cracking the Coconut:Resisting Popular Folk Discourses on &#8220;Race,&#8221; &#8220;Mixed Race&#8221; and Social Hierarchies<\/li>\n<li>2. Returning(s):Relocating the Critical Feminist Auto- Ethnographer<\/li>\n<li>3. Setting the Stage:Invoking the Griot(te)Traditions as Textual Strategies<\/li>\n<li>4. Ruby<\/li>\n<li>5. Similola<\/li>\n<li>6. Akousa<\/li>\n<li>7. Sarah<\/li>\n<li>8. Bisi<\/li>\n<li>9. Yemi<\/li>\n<li>10. Let Blackness and Whiteness Wash Through: Competing Discourses on Bi-Racialization and the Compulsion of Genealogical Erasures<\/li>\n<li>Epilogue<\/li>\n<li><em>Select Bibiographies<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Index<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a &#8220;Caublinasian&#8221;, affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created.\u00a0 This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms &#8216;Black&#8217; or &#8216;White&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,125,8,17,10,25],"tags":[74,75,420,105],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","category-women","tag-jayne-ifekwunigwe","tag-jayne-o-ifekwunigwe","tag-routledge","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51781,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/51781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}