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| Title: |
A white side of black Britain: The concept of racial literacy |
| Author: |
Twine, France Winddance |
| Appeared in: |
Ethnic and racial studies |
| Paging: | Volume 27 (2004) nr. 6 pages 878-907 |
| Year: |
2004-11 |
| Contents: |
Opposition to transracial adoption on both sides of the Atlantic, has been based, in part, on the assumption that white parents cannot understand race or racism and thus cannot properly prepare children of multiracial heritage to cope with racism. In this article I draw on a seven-year ethnographic study to offer an intensive case study of white transracial birth parents that counters this racial logic. I draw on a subset of data collected from field research and in-depth interviews with 102 members of black-white interracial families in England. I provide an analysis of three practices that I discovered among white transracial birth parents who were attempting to cultivate 'black' identities in their children of multiracial heritage. I offer the concept of 'racial literacy' to theorize their parental labour as a type of anti-racist project that remains under the radar of conventional sociological analyses of racism and anti-racist social movements. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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