Making Mixed Race

A Study of Time, Place and Identity

Karis Campion (De Montfort University, UK)

$114.95 $92.26

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Routledge
31 May 2023

Humanities; Popular culture; Ethnic studies; Sociology; Sociology: customs & traditions; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

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 life histories 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.

By: Karis Campion (De Montfort University UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9781032139326
ISBN 10: 1032139323
Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.