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.

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 ethnicity. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from the social and biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this book charts the evolution of debates on race and mixed race from the nineteenth to the twenty-first 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 divided into three main sections:
* tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics
* mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: mixed race, identities politics and celebration
* debating definitions: census categories and critiques.
Each section begins with a brief editorial guide to the readings and includes revision probes for each reading as well as suggestions for further reading. "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 is one of the fastest growing as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnicity. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from the social and biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this book charts the evolution of debates on race and mixed race from the nineteenth to the twenty-first 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 divided into three main sections:
* tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics
* mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: mixed race, identities politics and celebration
* debating definitions: census categories and critiques.
Each section begins with a brief editorial guide to the readings and includes revision probes for each reading as well as suggestions for further reading. "Mixed Race Studies: A Reader" is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of racial thinking across space, time, and disciplines.

When the 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 facing similar dilemmas of racial identity, of belonging and not belonging. It tells the stories of six women of mixed African/ African Caribbean and white European heritage to show how the often painful experience of being a stranger in two cultures can be named and celebrated. Jayne Ifekwunigwe explores the cultural and historical roots of the popular discourses of race. She analyzes the problem of theorizing mixed racial and/or cultural identity in a global context, always relating it to the real-life experiences of these women.