ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2 we pointed out that there has been virtually no research about the racialised identity of adolescents of mixed parentage living in their own families. We decided to explore four aspects of this topic with the young people in our study:
1 whether they regarded themselves as black; 2 whether they felt positive or negative or confused about their mixed
parentage; 3 the extent to which their racialised identity was central in their
lives; 4 the extent to which they felt an affinity to black cultures, and to
black and white people.
