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

Njaka, Chinelo L.; Sims, Jennifer Patrice

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“…Loveman (2014:5) suggested that states naturalize racial categories rather than create racial categories but agreed that "states 'make race' by making race matter, directly and explicitly, in the lives of individual persons". Put together, racial categories as enacted by the nation-state serve to enumerate and monitor populations, exclude or devalue certain populations, assign benefits and access to others, and come to have meaning for individuals (Loveman 2014;Marx 1998;Mills 1997;Sims and Njaka 2020;Song 2003).…”

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“…Coloureds represent part of the racial middle in South Africa. 3 Scholarship has shown that middling groups are catalysts for shaping, or sharpening, the boundaries and form of racial hierarchies, given their varied enumeration patterns, racial identity choices, and racial fluidity (Erasmus 2001;Sims and Njaka 2020;Song 2003;Wade 1995), and thus represent the formative place for studying racial formation (Daniel 2006;O'Brien 2008;Maghbouleh 2017).…”

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Racial States and Re-making Race: Exploring Coloured Racial Re- and De-formation in State Laws and Forms in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Pirtle

2020

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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The nation-state is one powerful entity that makes race. For instance, the mid-twentieth-century South African apartheid racial state cultivated a triracial hierarchy through officially naming three groups into law: White, Black (native African), and Coloured, with Coloured being defined and situated in the “racial middle” as neither White nor Black African. Yet because race is a social construction that is adaptive and dynamic, the state’s role in making race is also malleable and changing. This study offers a case study of how modern racial states re-make racial categories by focusing on the potential for re- or de-formation of the Coloured racial category since the end of apartheid in 1994 and 25 years into democracy. In conducting a critical race discourse analysis of official state forms and laws, the author finds that the post-apartheid nation-state challenges Coloureds’ racial categorization and position in the racial middle. It does this by simultaneously supporting nonracialist (i.e., color-blind racist) strategies and rewriting Coloured as Black as a means for racial redress. Moreover, the author argues that contemporary South Africa practices coloured blindness through both de-formation and then re-making of the Coloured racial category, thus contributing to the potential shift to a dichotomous racial hierarchy. This project demonstrates how the racial middle can be re-made to uphold state racial projects transformed by changes in the sociopolitical context.

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Racial States and Re-making Race: Exploring Coloured Racial Re- and De-formation in State Laws and Forms in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Pirtle

2020

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…Some of the women who I spoke to highlighted how Black diasporic conversations on social media have provided them with the chance to learn about and discuss different geo-culturally specific histories and understandings of Black identity, including perceived (dis)connections between 'mixed-race' and Black identities in different parts of the world (Sims and Njaka 2019). Therefore, although digital spaces can be sites where Black people appear to overcome geographical borders and connect with each other across continents, such experiences may involve commentaries that uphold or contest other types of conceptual borders, or, boundaries-such as the perceived ones of Black identity, as constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed by and through different people, politics, and places.…”

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Black Women’s Digital Diaspora, Collectivity, and Resistance

Sobande

2020

Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender

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This chapter highlights issues to do with Black digital diasporic content and communication. It discusses how Black women's digital activity can enable them to deal with experiences of oppression that are specific to their lives and in communal ways. This chapter explores resistant credentials of some of the digital experiences of Black women in Britain, while reckoning with potentially conflicting aspects of countercultural practices which exist in the context of digital consumerism. This discussion features analysis of how Black American popular and digital culture contributes to some of the digital encounters and lives of Black women in Britain in impactful ways. Overall, this chapter focuses on Black women's experiences of knowledge-sharing online, including via natural hair video blogs (vlogs) on YouTube. Keywords Black women • Digital diaspora • Resistance • Social media • Vlog • YouTube The twenty-first century is marked by the impact of globalisation and technology's significant role in cross-cultural communication which involves digital dialogue between individuals in different parts of the world-including Black people who connect with one another online.

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“… 1. Although research has shown that there are differences in the experiences of mixed-race people in the U.S. versus U.K. (Sims and Njaka, 2020) and South Africa (Laster Pirtle, 2014), this literature also shows that there is a broader globalization of mixedness (King-O’Riain et al, 2014) due to the nations’ shared histories and contemporary sociocultural exchanges (Dikötter, 2008; Goldberg, 2009). For this reason, and because they represent only two interviewees of 19, they were not removed from the sample despite the particular focus of this manuscript being on the context of the United States. …”

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“I Wouldn’t Trust the Parents To ‘Do No Harm’ To a Queer Kid”: Rethinking Parental Permission Requirements for Youth Participation in Social Science Research

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Nolen

2020

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

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Obtaining parental consent for youth to participate in research is a standard requirement in the United States. However, the assumption that involving parents is the best way to protect youth research participants is untenable for some populations. This study draws on interviews with 19 LGBTQ+ mixed-race participants to examine lay views of parental consent requirements for LGBTQ+ youth research participants. Qualitative data analysis found concerns about potentially outing LGBTQ+ youth to intolerant parents. Interviewees also asserted that adolescents aged 16 and older are competent enough and should have the autonomy to consent themselves. Finally, interviewees raised several methodological concerns regarding the biased research that may result from parental consent requirements. We agree with others that U.S. Institutional Review Boards should end uncritical requirements for parental consent for older adolescents and should routinize the use and study of alternative protective measures.

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

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Racial States and Re-making Race: Exploring Coloured Racial Re- and De-formation in State Laws and Forms in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Racial States and Re-making Race: Exploring Coloured Racial Re- and De-formation in State Laws and Forms in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Black Women’s Digital Diaspora, Collectivity, and Resistance

“I Wouldn’t Trust the Parents To ‘Do No Harm’ To a Queer Kid”: Rethinking Parental Permission Requirements for Youth Participation in Social Science Research

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