When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a Caublinasian, affirming his mixed caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created in a world still perceived in terms of black and white. This book is about ordinary lives similarly faced by the dilemmas of belonging and not belonging and about how the often painful experience of being a stranger in two cultures can be named and celebrated. The first section tells the narratives of six women of mixed African/ African Caribbean and white European heritage. In the second, the author explores the...
When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a Caublinasian, affirming his mixed caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a st...
When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a "Caublinasian," affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created. This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms 'Black' or 'White'. This is a unique and radical study. It interweaves the stories of six women of mixed African/African Caribbean and white European heritage with an analysis of the concepts of hybridity and mixed race identity.
When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a "Caublinasian," affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a ...
Mixed Race Studies: A Reader is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of racial thinking across space, time and disciplines.
Mixed Race Studies: A Reader is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of racial thinking across space, time and discipli...
'Mixed race' studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences as well as the humanities, this book charts the evolution of debates on race and mixed race from the 19th to the 21st century. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of mixed race research as an intellectual movement. It is...
'Mixed race' studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relat...