Home to two award-winning titles

Mixed-Race in the US and UK - Winner of the 2020 Mid-South Sociological Association Standford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award

Black Mixed-Race Men - Winner of the 2018 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize

About the Series

This monograph series adopts a critical, interdisciplinary perspective to the study of mixed race, showcasing ground-breaking research in this rapidly emerging field to publish work from early career researchers as well as established scholars.  The series publishes shortform books (between 20,000-50,000 words), monographs (avg. 75,000 words) and edited collections on a range of topics in relation to mixed race studies and include work from disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences including Sociology, History, Anthropology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Literature, Postcolonial Studies and Cultural Studies.  

Although it has long been asserted that ‘race’ is a social construct which changes across time and space, it still continues to have a powerful influence on our daily lives.  ‘Race’ and ‘mixed race’ are meaning systems constantly in the process of deconstruction and recreation by a variety of social actors for a range of socio-political, affective and cultural ends.  This critical perspective also necessitates an intersectional understanding to look locally and globally at the interconnectedness between ‘mixed race’, gender, sexuality, class and able-bodiedness, for example, within systems rooted in racialized social injustice in the 21st century.  

The series does not locate ‘mixed race’ as a project of Western modernity narrowly, but sees the importance of understanding its varied genealogies and explications across the globe in order to build a series based on comparative, transnational theoretical understandings.  The series enables the development of interdisciplinary, transracial and transnational analyses of ‘mixed race’ as concept, state organizing principle, aesthetic, identification, affective life and lived experience.  It aims to engender a new approach to Critical Mixed Race Studies based on decolonial thinking which encompasses the decoloniality of power, decoloniality of knowledge, decoloniality of being and decoloniality of affect in terms of ‘mixed race’ within local and global systems of racialized social injustice, which we must recall can paradoxically also include ‘mixed race’ valorization as commodities of national multiculturalism/multiracialism and global capital. The series intends to be global in scope and not narrowly focused on the Global North.
 

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Gender and mixed race
• Sexuality and mixed race
• Mixed race and diasporas
• Mixed race and class
• Embodiment and notions of ‘beauty’
• Intersectional understandings of mixed race
• Mixed race in national and transnational contexts
• Mixed race in the Global South
• Comparative studies of mixed race
• Transracial intimacies
• Theories of mixedness