Contents -- Introduction: Rethinking 'Mixed Race' -- From Pathologisation to Celebration -- Towards a Complex Ontology -- An Agenda for Rethinking Mixed Race -- Notes -- 1. How Sociology Imagined 'Mixed Race' -- White Racial Fears -- The Marginal Man -- Anglo- American Cross-Fertilisation of Ideas -- Holding the Line -- Notes -- 2. Re-Membering 'Race': On Gender, 'Mixed Race' and Family in the English-African Diaspora -- Beginnings: The Problematics of Race -- 'Hybridity' and the Paradoxes of Race -- Englishness and Normalised Whiteness -- The English- African Diaspora and Essentialised Blackness -- Scattered Belongings and the 'Half-Life' of the 'Mixed Race' Subject -- Parting Thoughts -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 3. Same Difference: Towards a More Unified Discourse in Mixed Race Theory -- Notes -- 4. The Subject is Mixed Race: The Boom in Biracial Biography -- The Black Person in a White Body -- A Tragic Mulatto Still -- Celebration of Mixedness -- Monoracialist Reaction -- Not Everyone is Part Black -- Interpretations -- Multiplicity in a Postmodern Context -- Notes -- 5. Triples - The Social Evolution of a Multiracial Panethnicity: An Asian American Perspective -- The Arbitrariness of Race -- Fractional Representation of Mixed Race People -- Asian American Panethnicity -- Political Organisations -- The 'You Are Both' Fiction -- Acceptance from Monoracial Minorities? -- Multiracial Collectivity -- Notes -- 6. Colour, Culture and Class: Interrogating Interracial Marriage and People of Mixed Racial Descent in the USA -- Patterns of Racialised Dating, Marriage and People of Mixed Origins -- The Discursive Terrains of Race Mixture -- Race Purity -- Economism and Bureaucracy -- Consumerism -- Carnal Delight -- Individualism and Personal Rights -- 'Race Mixture' and the Social Fabric of the USA -- A Way Forward -- Conclusion.

Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 7. 'Mixed Race' in Official Statistics -- Official Statistics -- The 1991 Census Question -- How The 1991 Census Handled Mixed Parentage -- What We Know about Mixed Parentage from the 1991 Census -- The 2001 Census Question -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 8. Learning to Do Ethnic Identity: The Transracial/ Transethnic Adoptive Family as Site and Context -- The Essentialist Concept of Ethnic Identity -- Ethnic Identity as Learned Culture -- The Mixed- Race/ Mixed- Ethnic Adoptive Family as Site and Context -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 9. 'I'm a Blonde-haired, Blue-eyed Black Girl': Mapping Mobile Paradoxical Spaces among Multi-ethnic Women in Toronto, C -- Discourses on the Multiethnic Experience -- Methodology -- Gillian Rose: Paradoxical Space -- Elspeth Probyn: Outside Belongings -- Mapping Mobile Paradoxical Spaces -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- adoption -- age at time of 154 -- age at time of 156 -- age at time of 157 -- age at time of 166 -- and learning ethnic identity, 159-62 -- centrality of families to, 162-6 -- centrality of families to, 167 -- essentialist models of ethnic identity in, 15 -- essentialist models of ethnic identity in, 154 -- essentialist models of ethnic identity in, 155-9 -- essentialist models of ethnic identity in, 167 -- intercountry, 157-8 -- intercountry, 167 -- advertising, mixed race in -- 122 -- 123-4 -- Affirmative Action, abolished 127 -- African Caribbeans, interracial marriage rates -- 2 -- 135 -- African diasporas -- 13 -- 49 -- Africans, under colonialism -- 28 -- 30-1 -- 32-3 -- 36 -- alliances, across boundaries -- 72-3 -- 186 -- American Journal of Sociology -- 31 -- 34 -- Anglo-Indian, stereotype of -- 34 -- 37 -- Anzaldúa, Gloria, Borderlands/La Frontera 90 -- apartheid 24-5 -- Asian Americans.

interracial marriage rates, 2 -- interracial marriage rates, 91 -- interracial marriage rates, 92 -- interracial marriage rates, 103 -- interracial marriage rates, 114n -- interracial marriage rates, 118-19 -- panethnicity of, 102-3 -- Asian Immigrant Workers Association 103 -- Asian Law Caucus 103 -- Association of Black Social Workers and Allied Professionals [UK] 158 -- Association of Multiethnic Americans [AMEA] -- 76 -- 104 -- 125 -- 163 -- autobiography, and ethnic identity 93 -- Babcock, Winnefred Eaton -- 88 -- 106 -- belonging, use of term 183-4 -- Bhabha, Homi, cultural hybridity 93-4 -- Bible, claimed by White supremacists 121 -- biracial biography 77-9 -- Biracial Family Network of Chicago 104 -- Black -- choice of identity as, 85 -- choice of identity as, 86-7 -- choice of identity as, 105 -- as political affiliation, 56 -- as political affiliation, 79 -- strategic identification as, 57 -- strategic identification as, 59 -- Black Americans, intermarriage rates -- 91 -- 92 -- 118 -- 119 -- black/white colour line -- 66-7 -- 85-7 -- and biracial biography, 77-9 -- Blackness -- additive, 57-8 -- compulsory, 56-7 -- compulsory, 156 -- construction of, 13 -- construction of, 42 -- essentialised, 48-9 -- in America, 48 -- in America, 99 -- in Britain, 47-8 -- in Britain, 65 -- Blade [film] 123 -- Boateng, Paul, MP 156 -- boundaries -- alliances across, 72-3 -- and fear of social invasion, 35-7 -- crossing of, 186 -- geographical, 99 -- historical definitions of, 99 -- of belonging, 48 -- of belonging, 183 -- BRANCH [Biracial and Natural Children] 106 -- Brazil 129 -- Bristol mixed race project 50-8 -- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering [BAAF] 157 -- Broyard, Anatole 80-1 -- Buell, Raymond, 'The Native Problem in Africa' 29 -- bureaucracy 122 -- Canada, official multiculturalism 68.

Carnegie Corporation -- 23 -- The Poor White Problem in South Africa, 26-7 -- Child International 106 -- child welfare professionals, and adoption -- 15 -- 154 -- 155-9 -- 167 -- children -- choice of identity 105-6 -- choice of identity 136 -- choice of identity 137 -- choice of identity 161-2 -- interests of, 154 -- interests of, 168 -- multiracial, 54-5 -- multiracial, 85-7 -- multiracial, 105 -- Children's Act [1989] 156 -- Chinese-Americans 88-9 -- cities 119 -- class -- 17 -- 44 -- 46 -- 129 -- 130 -- and identity formation, 162 -- and identity formation, 164-5 -- and marriage rates [US], 118-19 -- and mixed race inferiority, 36-7 -- and social mobility, 70-1 -- effect on multiethnic experience, 177 -- Mixed Race Movement, 126 -- class analysis 128 -- colonialism, indirect rule policy -- 28 -- 31 -- Commission for Racial Equality [CRE] 149 -- communities [monoracial/ethnic], and acceptance of mixed race members -- 70-1 -- 73 -- 107-10 -- conditional acceptance 109-10 -- connections -- across boundaries, 72-3 -- creation of, 184 -- creation of, 185-6 -- consumerism, mixed race discourse 122-4 -- Copeland, Lewis C. 37-8 -- Crookshank, Francis Graham 101 -- cultural insecurity, of 'marginal man' -- 27-8 -- 34-5 -- cultural practices -- 16 -- traditional, 30 -- traditional, 31 -- dating, interracial -- 119 -- 130 -- Department of Health [UK] 156 -- diasporas, African -- 13 -- 49 -- discursive terrains 120-1 -- dissonance -- 16 -- 166 -- in adoptive families, 163-4 -- double consciousness [DuBois] 53 -- Dover, Cedric, Half-Caste [1937] 38 -- Eaton, Edith Maude -- 88 -- 106 -- economism and bureaucracy 122 -- editors, view of mixed race books 90-1 -- education -- as handicap to colonial Africans, 27-8 -- as handicap to colonial Africans, 31-2 -- and marriage rates, 118-19 -- English-African diaspora -- 13.

and essentialised Blackness, 48-9 -- Englishness -- construction of, 13 -- construction of, 42 -- as synonymous with Whiteness, 48 -- definitions of, 46-7 -- ethnic identity -- choice of, 92 -- choice of, 165 -- and ethnic origins, 151 -- as inherited culture, 156 -- as inherited culture, 157-8 -- as learned culture, 15 -- as learned culture, 159-62 -- essentialist models of 15 -- essentialist models of 155-9 -- essentialist models of 167 -- factors in, 167 -- ethnic minorities -- empowerment of, 159 -- exclusion of mixed race members, 70-1 -- exclusion of mixed race members, 73 -- exclusion of mixed race members, 107-10 -- views on mixed marriages, 135-6 -- views on mixed marriages, 150 -- ethnic origins 151 -- ethnicity 173 -- eugenics movement -- 13 -- 101 -- 113n -- family -- 70 -- 129 -- advantages of stability, 158-9 -- as site of identity formation, 162-6 -- as site of identity formation, 167 -- dissonance in adoptive, 163-4 -- lineages, 10 -- lineages, 16 -- norm of nuclear, 106 -- norm of nuclear, 154 -- feminism -- 72 -- and geography, 179 -- and geography, 180-1 -- Filipinos, multiracial history -- 111 -- 116n -- films, mixed race in 123 -- Funderburg, Lise, Black, White, Other 83 -- Gates, Henry Louis, on Anatole Broyard -- 80-1 -- 94 -- gender -- 17 -- 46 -- 129 -- genetic variation 4-5 -- geography, human 174 -- Gingrich, Newt 127 -- Ginsberg, Morris, The Psychology of Society [1921] 30 -- government policies -- on adoption, 156-7 -- on adoption, 167-8 -- multiculturalism, 68 -- on race and mixed race, 23-5 -- use of official statistics, 15 -- use of official statistics, 104 -- use of official statistics, 149-50 -- Grant, Bernie, MP 149 -- Great Britain -- adoption policies, 156-7 -- adoption policies, 167-8 -- age of mixed race population, 136-8.

age of mixed race population, 137.