Global Mixed Race

"Patterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations around the world, moving beyond US borders to explore the dynamics of racial mixing and multiple descent in Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Okinawa, Australia, and New Zealand. In particular, the volume's editors ask: how have new global flows of ideas, goods, and people affected the lives and social placements of people of mixed descent? Thirteen original chapters address the ways mixed-race individuals defy, bolster, speak, and live racial categorization, paying attention to the ways that these experiences help us think through how we see and engage with social differences. The contributors also highlight how mixed-race people can sometimes be used as emblems of multiculturalism, and how these identities are commodified within global capitalism while still considered by some as not pure or inauthentic. A strikingly original study, Global Mixed Race carefully and comprehensively considers the many different meanings of racial mixedness."--Publisher information Global Mixed Race: An Introduction vii Stephen Small and Rebecca C. King-O’Riain Part I: Societies with Established Populations of Mixed Descent 1. Multiraciality and Census Classification in 1 Global Perspective Ann Morning 2. “Rider of Two Horses”: Eurafricans in Zambia 16 Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton 3. “Split Me in Two”: Gender, Identity, and “Race Mixing” 44 in the Trinidad and Tobago Nation Rhoda Reddock 4. In the Laboratory of Peoples’ Friendship: Mixed People 68 in Kazakhstan from the Soviet Era to the Present Saule K. Ualiyeva and Adrienne L. Edgar 5. Competing Narratives: Race and Multiraciality in 91 the Brazilian Racial Order G. Reginald Daniel and Andrew Michael Lee 6. Antipodean Mixed Race: Australia and New Zealand 119 Farida Fozdar and Maureen Perkins 7. Negotiating Identity Narratives among Mexico’s 144 Cosmic Race Christina A. Sue Part II: Places with Newer Populations of Mixed Descent 8. Multiraciality and Migration: Mixed-Race American 167 Okinawans, 1945–1972 Lily Anne Yumi Welty 9. The Curious Career of the One-Drop Rule: Multiraciality 188 and Membership in Germany Today Miriam Nandi and Paul Spickard 10. Capturing “Mixed Race” in the Decennial UK Censuses: 213 Are Current Approaches Sustainable in the Age of Globalization and Superdiversity? Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song 11. Exporting the Mixed-Race Nation: Mixed-Race Identities 238 in the Canadian Context Minelle Mahtani, Dani Kwan-Lafond, and Leanne Taylor Global Mixed Race: A Conclusion 263 Rebecca C. King-O’Riain Bibliography 281 About the Contributors 315 Index 321