The number of people in racially mixed relationships has grown steadily over the last thirty years, yet these people often feel stigmatised and unhappy about their identities.
The first edition of Black, White or Mixed Race? was a ground-breaking study: this revised edition uses new literature to consider what is now known about racialised identities and changes in the official use of 'mixed' categories. All new developments are placed in a historical framework and in the context of up-to-date literature on mixed parentage in Britain and the USA.
Based on research with young...

This revised edition begins with a substantial new introduction, setting the data in today's context, and includes updated statistics and references. i Black, White or Mixed Race /i is as relevant today as when it was first published. In it Tizard and Phoenix explore the question of mixed-race identity through interviews with young people from a range of social backgrounds, all of whom had one white and one African or Afro-Caribbean parent. The authors use interview data with both the young people and their parents to examine their attitudes towards their identity, their cultural...

Addressing issues of long-standing concern, but from new perspectives, this book contributes to existing key debates about sexuality, paid work, the development process, equal opportunities legislation, lesbian history and women's writing. Extending beyond disciplinary boundaries many of the contributions address issues such as the politics and practice of women's studies, and the specificity of women's oppression within particular national and international contexts. Theoretical, epistemological and methodological questions are analyzed from a variety of perspectives which frequently defy...

An investigation of the debates around standpoint theory and the post-structuralist alternative argument. The contributors: consider questions and developments on giving voice; and explore arguments and theoretical positions concerning power and subjectivity.

How do boys see themselves? Their peers? The adult world? What are their aspirations? Their fears? Centring on a study in which boys talked openly about such issues as their relationships with parents and friends, 'hardness', homophobia and football, and the importance of youth style, 'race' and ethnicity, Young Masculinities will be of profound interest to students and researchers in psychology, sociology, gender and youth studies, as well as to those determining social policy on boys and young men.

This new Policy Press Short presents innovative international research into how the term -environment- is understood within families, and how that plays out in everyday lives. Based on a study that involved creative qualitative work with families in India and the United Kingdom, it shows how environmental practices are negotiated in families, and how they relate to values, identities, and society. Through that analysis, we begin to see the ways in which families and childhood are constructed as sites for intervention in debates about climate change.