Mixed-Race in the Us and UK: Comparing the Past, Present, and Future

by Chinelo L. Njaka, Jennifer Patrice Sims, Chinelo L. Njaka

Book Overview

Winner of the 2020 Mid-South Sociological Association Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award.

Contributing to an emerging literature on mixed-race people in the United States and United Kingdom, this book draws on racial formation theory and the performativity (i.e. "doing") of race to explore the social construction of mixedness on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

In addition to macro- and micro-level theoretical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1787695565
• ISBN13: 9781787695566
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.9"