Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Disharmony of Physical, Mental and Temperamental Qualities’: Race Crossing, Miscegenation and the Eugenics Movement

Chapter 3 Mixed Race Communities and Social Stability

Chapter 4 ‘Unnatural Alliances’ and ‘Poor Half-Castes’: Representations of Racial Mixing and Mixedness and the Entrenching of Stereotypes

Chapter 5 Fitting In and Standing Out: Lived Experiences of Everyday Interraciality

Chapter 6 ‘Tan Yanks’, ‘Loose Women’ and ‘Brown Babies’: Official Accounts of Mixing and Mixedness During the Second World War

Chapter 7 ‘Undesirable Element’: The Repatriation of Chinese Sailors and Break Up of Mixed Families in the 1940s

Chapter 8 Conviviality, Hostility and Ordinariness: Everyday Lives and Emotions in the Second World War and Early Post-war Years

Chapter 9 Redefining Race: UNESCO, the Biology of Race Crossing, and the Wane of the Eugenics Movement

Chapter 10 The Era of Mass Immigration and Widespread Population Mixing

Chapter 11 ‘Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Black Man?’: Representation and Lived Experiences in the Post-war Period

Chapter 12 The Emergence of the ‘New Wave’: Insider-Led Studies and Multifaceted Perceptions

Chapter 13 Social Acceptance, Official Recognition, and Membership of the British Collectivity

Chapter 14 A Postscript to the Twentieth Century: Mainstream and Celebrated Limitations, and Counter-narratives