{"id":7704,"date":"2011-01-28T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:09:58","slug":"a-white-side-of-black-britain-interracial-intimacy-and-racial-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7704","title":{"rendered":"A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Duke University Press<\/a>
\nDecember 2010
\n328 Pages
\n57 b&w photos, 3 figures
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4876-4
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4900-6<\/p>\n

France Winddance Twine<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n

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A White Side of Black Britain<\/em> explores the racial consciousness of white women in the United Kingdom<\/a> who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces new theoretical concepts in her description and analysis of white \u201ctransracial\u201d mothers raising their children of African Caribbean ancestry in a racially diverse British city. Varying in age, income, education, and marital status, the transracial mothers at the center of Twine\u2019s ethnography share moving stories about how they cope with racism and teach their children to identify and respond to racism. They also discuss how and why their thinking about race, racism, and whiteness changed over time. Interviewing and observing more than forty multiracial families over a decade, Twine discovered that the white women\u2019s racial consciousness and their ability to recognize and negotiate racism was derived as much from their relationships with their black partner and his extended family as it was from their female friends. In addition to the white birth mothers, Twine interviewed their children, spouses, domestic partners, friends, and extended families members. Her book is best characterized as an ethnography of racial consciousness and a dialogue between black and white family members about the meaning of race, racism, and whiteness. It includes intimate photographs of the family members and their community.<\/p>\n

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

Illustrations<\/em>
\n Acknowledgments<\/em>
\nIntroduction
\n1. A Class Analysis of Interracial Intimacy
\n2. Disciplining Racial Dissidents
\n3. The Concept of Racial Literacy
\n4. Antiracism in Practice
\n5. Written on the Body: Ethnic Capital and Black Cultural Production
\n6. Archives of Interracial Intimacies: Race, Respectability, and Family Photographs
\n7. White Like Who? Status, Stigma, and the Social Meanings of Whiteness
\n8. Gender Gaps in the Experience of Interracial Intimacy
\nConclusion: Constricted Eyes and Racial Visions
\nNotes<\/em>
\n References<\/em>
\n Index<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A White Side of Black Britain” explores the racial consciousness of white women in the United Kingdom who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces new theoretical concepts in her description and analysis of white \u201ctransracial\u201d mothers raising their children of African Caribbean ancestry in a racially diverse British city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,414,8,17,394,4481,10,25],"tags":[302,1184],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-social-work","category-uk","category-women","tag-duke-university-press","tag-france-winddance-twine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","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=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57722,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions\/57722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}