ABSTRACT
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 ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book 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: multiraciality, census categories and critiques.
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. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|103 pages
Tracing the origins
part 1a|59 pages
Miscegenation and moral degeneracy
part 1b|39 pages
Genetics
part 2|63 pages
Mapping contemporary and foundational discourses
part 3|122 pages
Debating definitions
part 3a|58 pages
The census and categories
part 3b|60 pages
Multiraciality and critiques