Karis Campion

Making Mixed Race

A Study of Time, Place and Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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 - place, time, and personal identity - 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.

The book centres around the lifehistories of 37 people of Mixed White and Black Caribbean heritage born between 1959 and 1994, in Britain's second-largest city, Birmingham. The intimate life portraits of mixed identity reveal how colourism, 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.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781032139326
• ISBN-10: 1032139323
• Artikelnr.: 67822358

Autorenporträt

Karis Campion is a Legacy in Action Research Fellow at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University. Her main research interests span areas of (mixed) race/ethnic identity and geographies of race in urban space.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction

2. Introducing Birmingham

3. The making of mixed-race in place

4. From bun down Babylon to melting pot Britain: the manifestations of mixed-race over time

5. Mixed-race privilege and precarious positionalities: the personal politics of identity

6. The making of mixed-race families: past, present and future

7. Conclusion

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1. Introduction
2. Introducing Birmingham
3. The making of mixed-race in place
4. From bun down Babylon to melting pot Britain: the manifestations of
mixed-race over time
5. Mixed-race privilege and precarious positionalities: the personal
politics of identity
6. The making of mixed-race families: past, present and future
7. Conclusion