Exploring ‘Mixed Race’ in Britain

Abstract

To what extent can we say that there is a ‘mixed race’ group in Britain today? What commonalities underlie the experience of being mixed, and in what ways does the growing population of mixed people comprise a group? This book explores the racial identifications and experiences of mixed race young adults in further and higher education in Britain. While studies of mixed people have grown in Britain in the last two decades, we still know remarkably little about this population. For instance, how do different types of mixed people identify themselves in ethnic and racial terms, and what sorts of identity options do they possess? Does the wider society validate mixed people’s asserted identifications? Is being mixed race in Britain a racially disadvantaged status? To what extent is being mixed central to their sense of selves and their everyday lives?KeywordsMixed RaceBirth MotherRacial TermRacial BoundaryMultiethnic SocietyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.