Global Mixed Race / / ed. by Rebecca C. King-O'Riain, Stephen Small, Minelle Mahtani, Miri Song, Paul Spickard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Aspinall, Peter J.,; Daniel, G. Reginald,; Edgar, Adrienne L.,; Fozdar, Farida,; King-O’Riain, Rebecca C.,; Kwan-Lafond, Dani,; Lee, Andrew Michael,; Mahtani, Minelle,; Milner-Thornton, Juliette Bridgette,; Morning, Ann,; Nandi, Miriam,; Perkins, Maureen,; Reddock, Rhoda,; Small, Stephen,; Song, Miri,; Spickard, Paul,; Sue, Christina A.,; Taylor, Leanne,; Ualiyeva, Saule K.,; Welty, Lily Anne Yumi,
• HerausgeberIn: King-O'Riain, Rebecca C.,; Mahtani, Minelle,; Small, Stephen,; Song, Miri,; Spickard, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Patterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations around the world, moving beyond US borders to explore the dynamics of racial mixing and multiple descent in Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Okinawa, Australia, and New Zealand. In particular, the volume’s editors ask: how have new global flows of ideas, goods, and people affected the lives and social placements of people of mixed descent? Thirteen original chapters address the ways mixed-race individuals defy, bolster, speak, and live racial categorization, paying attention to the ways that these experiences help us think through how we see and engage with social differences. The contributors also highlight how mixed-race people can sometimes be used as emblems of multiculturalism, and how these identities are commodified within global capitalism while still considered by some as not pure or inauthentic. A strikingly original study, Global Mixed Race carefully and comprehensively considers the many different meanings of racial mixedness.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Global Mixed Race -- PART I: SOCIETIES WITH ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS OF MIXED DESCENT -- 1. Multiraciality and Census Classification in Global Perspective -- 2. “Rider of Two Horses” -- 3. “Split Me in Two” -- 4. In the Laboratory of Peoples’ Friendship -- 5. Competing Narratives -- 6. Antipodean Mixed Race -- 7. Negotiating Identity Narratives among Mexico’s Cosmic Race -- PART II: PLACES WITH NEWER POPULATIONS OF MIXED DESCENT -- 8. Multiraciality and Migration -- 9. The Curious Career of the One-Drop Rule -- 10. Capturing “Mixed Race” in the Decennial UK Censuses -- 11. Exporting the Mixed-Race Nation -- Global Mixed Race -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index