Overview of Lecture 1

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Overview of Lecture 1

• Part 1 Mixed-race ignored on the sociological
  and social agenda
• Part 2 The long view historical perspectives
• USA and Europe
• Part 3 Theoretical considerations Undermine and
  reaffirm the dominant folk conception of race -

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Overview of Lecture 2

• Part 4 The politics of naming mixed-race people
• Part 5 Shared Experiences of being mixed-race and
  part of a mixed-race family?

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Overview of Lecture 3

• Part 6 Mixed-race ethnographies Frances
  Winddance Twine a view from the UK and the USA
• Part 7a Interracial/ transnational adoption
• in the UK
• Part 7b Trans-national adoption in Norway
• Signe Howell

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Overview of Lecture 4

• Part 8 Birth of Black Twins to the white IVF
  mother

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Part 1 new for sociology

• Last 5 years new for sociologists
• Census UK and USA 21st Century
• Can we talk about mixed-race without reifying the
  idea of race
• Are there common experiences?

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Part 2 Historical enframing

• 19th and 20th century monstrous people
• View from the USA
• 1661 Anti-miscegnation laws in USA
• 1967 Anti-miscegnation laws illegal
• View from Europe
• Ann Stoler Dutch East Indies

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Part 3 Theoretical considerations

• Disruption to the dominant folk conception of
  race
• Also constrained by it
• Jayne Ifekwunigwe

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Part 4 Politics of naming

• Mixed-race Problems?
• Mixed-parentage Problems?
• Interracial Problems?
• Maria Root Bill of rights in the USA

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Part 5 Shared Experiences

• No Grand Narrative
• Rejection from Family
• What are you question?
• Misrecognition of family in public
• (Twine and the case of Ruby)
• Multiple allegiances

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Part 5 Shared experiences

• I was ready for someone to call me a name.
• I was ready for somebody to throw
• something at me I had in my head that
• could happen. I wasnt ready for somebody
• to doubt that he was mine. So it was real shock
• to me the first time. After that I was ready for
  it
• my answer would be straight No hes mine. I
• bore him. He was in my womb. I carried him for
• nine months, just like any other child.
• (Francis Winddance Twine, 2000).

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• Part 6 Ethnography
• Twine and Leicester
• Twine and USA
• Part 7 Trans-national/ racial adoption
• UK
• Norway

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The Sun, July 8th 2002
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The Sun, July 8th

• Diagram of the possible mix-up