White Side of Black Britain Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

Name: White Side of Black Britain Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy
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ISBN: 9780822348764

ISBN-10: 0822348764

ISBN-13: 9780822348764

Edition: 2011

Authors: France Winddance Twine, Michael Smyth

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A White Side of Black Britainexplores the racial consciousness of white women in the United Kingdom who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces new theoretical concepts in her description and analysis of white "transracial" mothers raising their children of African Caribbean ancestry in a racially diverse British city. Varying in age, income, education, and marital status, the transracial mothers at the center of Twiners"s ethnography share moving stories about how they cope with racism and teach their children to identify and respond to…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 2/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction Territories of Whiteness in Black Britain



A Class Analysis of Interracial Intimacy



Disciplining Racial Dissidents: Transgressive Women, Transracial Mothers



The Concept of Racial Literacy



Racial Literacy in Practice



Written on the Body: Ethnic Capital and Black Cultural Production



Archives of Interracial Intimacies: Race, Respectability, and Family Photographs



White Like Who? Status, Stigma, and the Social Meanings of Whiteness



Gender Gaps in the Experience of Interracial Intimacy


Conclusion: Constricted Eyes and Racial Visions


Notes


References


Index