{"id":61358,"date":"2021-11-26T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61358"},"modified":"2021-11-26T20:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T20:58:04","slug":"making-mixed-race-a-study-of-time-place-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61358","title":{"rendered":"Making Mixed Race: A Study of Time, Place and Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making Mixed Race: A Study of Time, Place and Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Routledge<\/a>
\n2021-11-24
\n208 pages
\nHardback ISBN: 9780367462918<\/p>\n

Karis Campion<\/strong><\/a>, Legacy in Action Research Fellow
\nStephen Lawrence Research Centre<\/em>
\nDe Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

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By examining Black mixed-race identities in the city through a series of historical vantage points, Making Mixed Race<\/em> provides in-depth insights into the geographical and historical contexts that shape the possibilities and constraints for identifications.<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 place, time, and personal identity \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

The book centres around the life histories of 37 people of Mixed White and Black Caribbean heritage born between 1959 and 1994, in Britain\u2019s<\/a> second-largest city, Birmingham<\/a>. The intimate life portraits of mixed identity, reveal how colourism<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Introduction<\/li>\n
  2. Introducing Birmingham<\/li>\n
  3. The making of mixed-race in place<\/li>\n
  4. From bun down Babylon to melting pot Britain: the manifestations of mixed-race over time<\/li>\n
  5. Mixed-race privilege and precarious positionalities: the personal politics of identity<\/li>\n
  6. The making of mixed-race families: past, present and future<\/li>\n
  7. Conclusion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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