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Mixed-Race in the US and UK

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CRITICAL MIXED-RACE STUDIES

Edited by Shirley Anne Tate, University of Alberta, Canada.

This series adopts a critical, interdisciplinary perspective to the study of mixed-race. It will showcase ground-breaking research in this rapidly emerging field to publish work from early career researchers as well as established scholars. The series will publish short books, monographs and edited collections on a range of topics in relation to mixed-race studies and include work from disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences including Sociology, History, Anthropology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Literature, Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies and Cultural Studies.

Editorial Board: Suki Ali, LSE, UK; Ginetta Candelario, Smith College, USA; Michele Elam, Stanford University, USA; Jin Haritaworn, University of Toronto, Canada; Rebecca King O’Riain, Maynooth University, Ireland; Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education, University of London, UK; and Rhoda Reddock, University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago

Previously Published:

• Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and ‘Post-Racial’ Resilience – Winner of the 2019 BSA Philip Abrams Prize

Forthcoming in this series:

• Paul Ian Campbell, Identity Politics, ‘Mixed-Race’ and Local Football in 21st Century Britain: Mix and Match

• Shirley Anne Tate, Decolonizing Sambo: Transculturation, Fungibility and Black and People of Colour Futurity

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Mixed-Race in the US and UK: Comparing the Past, Present, and Future

BY

JENNIFER PATRICE SIMS

University of Alabama in Huntsville, US

and

CHINELO L. NJAKA

Peckham Rights! and Independent Social Researcher, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK

First edition 2020

Copyright © Jennifer Patrice Sims and Chinelo L. Njaka, 2020. Published under an exclusive licence.

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ISBN: 978-1-78769-554-2 (Print)

ISBN: 978-1-78769-553-5 (Online)

ISBN: 978-1-78769-555-9 (Epub)

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For Chinyere Ike, Gretha, and all the loved ones we lost along the way.

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Shirley Tate, Helen Beddow, Philippa Grand, Rachel Ward, Charlotte Wilson, Alice Ford, Sophie Darling, Sophie Barr, and Rajachitra. S for their work at Emerald. For reading draft chapters and providing incredibly helpful feedback we would like to thank Jeffrey Bayne, David Brunsma, Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Danielle Lemi, Danielle McMillian, Ijeoma Njaka, Brittany Sims, Miri Song, Christina Steidl, Myra Washington, and Paul Wright. Jenn would also like to thank her interviewees for their willingness to share their experiences; Whitney Laster Pirtle for her text message support; Erin Reid and Micah Bonds for their lightning-fast administrative assistance; and her family and friends, especially Roxie and Malcolm, for their unconditional love. Finally, Chinelo would like to thank her research participants for giving their time and sharing their perspectives; her family – husband, parents, sisters and in-laws; and friends – especially India-Alana Doris and Natoyah Epailly for their unceasing support and encouragement during the writing of this book.