An exploration of racial considerations in partnered fathers’ involvement in bringing up their mixed/multi-race children in Britain and New Zealand
An exploration of racial considerations in partnered fathers’ involvement in bringing up their mixed/multi-race children in Britain and New Zealand
This article considers how partnered fathers’ involvement may be shaped by their understandings of the salience and impact of their children’s racial belonging where fathers do not share the same race as their (biological) children. We draw on findings from a small-scale study of fathers with a partner from a different racial background living in Britain and New Zealand, to consider their involvement with their mixed or multi-racial children. Bringing up mixed/multi- race children can involve White fathers in thinking about issues that they would not necessarily otherwise have to consider. It could, for example, mean that they supported their children’s access to minority cultural knowledge and challenge racism. Equally, bringing up mixed/multi- race children can involve fathers from racial minorities in thinking about racial considerations in a different way. Notably they may transmit racial pride and cultural history to help their children deal with prejudice from the father’s own minority ethnic group as well as racism from Whites.
fathers’ involvement, mixed/multi-race children, britain, new zealand
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Edwards, Rosalind
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Caballero, Chamion
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Edwards, Rosalind
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Caballero, Chamion
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Edwards, Rosalind and Caballero, Chamion
(2015)
An exploration of racial considerations in partnered fathers’ involvement in bringing up their mixed/multi-race children in Britain and New Zealand.
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Abstract
This article considers how partnered fathers’ involvement may be shaped by their understandings of the salience and impact of their children’s racial belonging where fathers do not share the same race as their (biological) children. We draw on findings from a small-scale study of fathers with a partner from a different racial background living in Britain and New Zealand, to consider their involvement with their mixed or multi-racial children. Bringing up mixed/multi- race children can involve White fathers in thinking about issues that they would not necessarily otherwise have to consider. It could, for example, mean that they supported their children’s access to minority cultural knowledge and challenge racism. Equally, bringing up mixed/multi- race children can involve fathers from racial minorities in thinking about racial considerations in a different way. Notably they may transmit racial pride and cultural history to help their children deal with prejudice from the father’s own minority ethnic group as well as racism from Whites.
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Accepted/In Press date: 28 August 2015
Keywords:
fathers’ involvement, mixed/multi-race children, britain, new zealand
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Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
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Local EPrints ID: 381088
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/381088
ISSN: 1537-6680
PURE UUID: 4dc2a496-e600-4559-b327-ecd2c53e6362
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Chamion Caballero
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