{"id":8529,"date":"2010-08-27T04:03:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T04:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8529"},"modified":"2010-10-07T17:32:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T17:32:39","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-in-a-name-an-exploration-of-the-significance-of-personal-naming-of-%e2%80%98mixed%e2%80%99-children-for-parents-from-different-racial-ethnic-and-faith-backgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8529","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in a name? An exploration of the significance of personal naming of \u2018mixed\u2019 children for parents from different racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1467-954X.2008.00776.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s in a name? An exploration of the significance of personal naming of \u2018mixed\u2019 children for parents from different racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1467-954X\" target=\"_blank\">The Sociological Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/sore.2008.56.issue-1\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 56, Issue 1<\/a>, February 2008<br \/>\npages 39\u201360<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1111\/j.1467-954X.2008.00776.x<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/myprofile.cos.com\/edwardra\" target=\"_blank\">Rosalind Edwards<\/a><\/strong>, Professor in Social Policy<br \/>\nFamilies &amp; Social Capital Research Group<br \/>\n<em>London South Bank University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsbu.ac.uk\/families\/staff.shtml#chamion\" target=\"_blank\">Chamion Caballero<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Research Fellow<br \/>\nFamilies &amp; Social Capital Research Group<br \/>\n<em>London South Bank University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article is concerned with how and why parent couples from different racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds choose their children&#8217;s personal names? The limited literature on the topic of names often focuses on outcomes, using birth name registration data sets, rather than process. In particular, we consider the extent to which the personal names that \u2018mixed\u2019 couples give their children represent an individualised taste, or reflect a form of collective affiliation to family, race, ethnicity or faith. We place this discussion in the context of debates about the racial and faith affiliation of \u2018mixed\u2019 people, positing various forms of \u2018pro\u2019 or \u2018post\u2019 collective identity. We draw on in-depth interview data to show that, in the case of \u2018mixed\u2019 couple parents, while most wanted names for their children that they liked, they also wanted names that symbolised their children&#8217;s heritages. This could involve parents in complicated practices concerning who was involved in naming the children and what those names were. We conclude that, for a full understanding of naming practices and the extent to which these are individualised or affiliative it is important to address process, and that the processes we have identified for \u2018mixed\u2019 parents reveal the persistence of collective identity associated with race, ethnicity and faith alongside elements of individualised taste and transcendence, as well as some gendered features.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1467-954X.2008.00776.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s in a name? An exploration of the significance of personal naming of \u2018mixed\u2019 children for parents from different racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds The Sociological Review Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2008 pages 39\u201360 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1467-954X.2008.00776.x Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families &amp; Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Chamion Caballero, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,8,394],"tags":[62,683,3612],"class_list":["post-8529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-chamion-caballero","tag-rosalind-edwards","tag-the-sociological-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529","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=8529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}