ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|28 pages
Cracking the Coconut
Resisting popular folk discourses on "race," "mixed race" and social hierarchies
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chapter |9 pages
Preamble Could i be a Part of Your Family?
Preliminary/contextualizing thoughts on psychocultural politics of transracial placements and adoption
chapter 5|14 pages
Similola
"The difference comes from within me. I'm neither of those two things and both as well"
chapter 7|16 pages
Sarah
"I wasn't White and I wasn't the shape that a little girl should be — knobbly knees"
chapter 8|20 pages
Bisi
"If you are mixed race you belong in two (or more) cultural traditions which may be mutually contradictory you just have to find that middle space"
chapter 10|24 pages
Let Blackness and Whiteness Wash Through
Competing discourses on bi-racialization and the compulsion of genealogical erasures
