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Genre/Form: | Ressources Internet Case studies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Version imprimée : Global mixed race (DLC) 2013039339 (OCoLC)860944249 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain; Stephen Small; Minelle Mahtani; Miri Song; Paul Spickard |
ISBN: | 9780814770474 0814770479 |
OCLC Number: | 1004118494 |
Description: | 1 ressource en ligne |
Contents: | Global Mixed Race: An Introduction -- PART I: SOCIETIES WITH ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS OF MIXED DESCENT. 1. Multiraciality and Census Classification in Global Perspective / Ann Morning; 2. "Rider of Two Horses": Eurafricans in Zambia / Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton; 3. "Split Me in Two": Gender, Identity, and "Race Mixing" in the Trinidad and Tobago Nation / Rhoda Reddock; 4. In the Laboratory of Peoples' Friendship: Mixed People in Kazakhstan from the Soviet Era to the Present / Saule K. Ualiyeva and Adrienne L. Edgar; 5. Competing Narratives: Race and Multiraciality in the Brazilian Racial Order / G. Reginald Daniel and Andrew Michael Lee; 6. Antipodean Mixed Race: Australia and New Zealand / Farida Fozdar and Maureen Perkins; 7. Negotiating Identity Narratives among Mexico's Cosmic Race / Christina A. Sue. PART II: PLACES WITH NEWER POPULATIONS OF MIXED DESCENT. 8. Multiraciality and Migration: Mixed-Race American Okinawans, 1945-1972 / Lily Anne Yumi Welty; 9. The Curious Career of the One-Drop Rule: Multiraciality and Membership in Germany Today / Miriam Nandi and Paul Spickard; 10. Capturing "Mixed Race" in the Decennial UK Censuses: Are Current Approaches Sustainable in the Age of Globalization and Superdiversity? / Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song; 11. Exporting the Mixed-Race Nation: Mixed-Race Identities in the Canadian Context / Minelle Mahtani, Dani Kwan-Lafond, and Leanne Taylor -- Global Mixed Race: A Conclusion / Rebecca C. King-O'Riain -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index. |
Responsibility: | edited by Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain, Stephen Small, Minelle Mahtani, Miri Song, and Paul Spickard. |
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"Global Mixed Race is a very welcome addition to the literature on race and mixedness. Its vibrant case studies, comparative frame and historical grounding offer a useful guide for understanding what contemporary concepts and experiences of 'mixed race' owe to global trends and local specificities. A must-read for anyone interested in racialization in its many forms."-Kimberly Dacosta,author of Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line "Thissuperb volume lays the groundwork for an emergent and exciting globalcomparative framework for understanding mixed race categories and identities. By decentering U.S. mixed race histories andexperiences, these essays make us attentive to how notions such as nation andclass, and processes such as colonization and migration, are fundamentally complicitin shaping the very definition and meaning of 'mixed race.'"-Michael Omi,co-author of Racial Formation in the United States "Mixture-racial, national, ethnic-while not a new phenomenon is increasingly evident in today's globalized world. The authors of these 12 absorbing essays examine and discuss the status, identity, and life experiences of mixed-decent individuals and communities in different cultural and political environment. . . . This fine book makes valuable contributions to the study of race, ethnicity, and gender in a period of unprecedented global change. Summing up: Highly recommended."-Choice "Global Mixed Raceis a comprehensive compilation of world mixed-race identities, histories, andissues. The editors have expertly prepared for comparison and intrinsicinterest contemporary and timely discussions of mixed race as an increasinglyrecognized dimension of racial and ethnic diversity in the 21stcentury. From post-modern popular culture to academic race theory, thisexciting, ground-breaking collection will be a standard resource and referencefor general readers, multidisciplinary scholars, and specialists of race,ethnicity, culture, and mixed race."-Naomi Zack,author of Race and Mixed Race Read more...

