Partnered fathers bringing up their mixed-/multi-race children: an exploratory comparison of racial projects in Britain and New Zealand
Partnered fathers bringing up their mixed-/multi-race children: an exploratory comparison of racial projects in Britain and New Zealand
This article explores how fathers in couple relationships where their partner is from a different racial background understand bringing up their children. Drawing on a small-scale, in-depth comparison of fathers' accounts in Britain and New Zealand, and using the analytic concept of racial projects, fathers' activities towards and hopes for their children's identity and affiliation are revealed as keyed into historically situated social and political forces. Particular national racial projects and histories of coloniser and colonised are (re)created and reflected in the various typifications (ideal orientations) informing the fathers' racial projects. These might be concerned with mixed, single or transcendent senses of belonging, in individual or collective ways, each of which were in various forms of dialogue with race.
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Edwards, Rosalind
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1 January 2017
Edwards, Rosalind
e43912c0-f149-4457-81a9-9c4e00a4bb42
Edwards, Rosalind
(2017)
Partnered fathers bringing up their mixed-/multi-race children: an exploratory comparison of racial projects in Britain and New Zealand.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 24 (2), .
(doi:10.1080/1070289X.2015.1091320).
Abstract
This article explores how fathers in couple relationships where their partner is from a different racial background understand bringing up their children. Drawing on a small-scale, in-depth comparison of fathers' accounts in Britain and New Zealand, and using the analytic concept of racial projects, fathers' activities towards and hopes for their children's identity and affiliation are revealed as keyed into historically situated social and political forces. Particular national racial projects and histories of coloniser and colonised are (re)created and reflected in the various typifications (ideal orientations) informing the fathers' racial projects. These might be concerned with mixed, single or transcendent senses of belonging, in individual or collective ways, each of which were in various forms of dialogue with race.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2 September 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 September 2015
Published date: 1 January 2017
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Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/380048
ISSN: 1070-289X
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