Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of Race, Nation and Gender [Hardcover]

When the American golfer Tiger Woods proclaimed himself a Caublinasian , affirming his mixed Caucasian, Black, Native American and Asian ancestry, a storm of controversy was created. This book is about people faced by the strain of belonging and not belonging within the narrow confines of the terms 'Black' or 'White'.
This is a unique and radical study. It interweaves the stories of six women of mixed African/African Caribbean and white European heritage with an analysis of the concepts of hybridity and mixed race identity.List of plates -- Prologue -- A cknowledgements -- 1 Cracking the coconut: resisting popular folk discourses on race, mixed race and social hierarchies -- 2 Returning(s): relocating the critical feminist autoethnographer -- 3 Setting the stage: invoking the griot(te) traditions as textual strategies -- Preamble: could I be a part of your family? Preliminary /contextualizing thoughts on psychocultural politics of transracial placements and adoption -- 4 Ruby -- 5 Similola -- 6 Akousa -- 7 Sarah -- 8 Bisi -- 9 Yemi -- 10 Let Blackness and Whiteness wash through: competing discourses on bi-racialization and the compulsion of genealogical erasures -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliographies -- Index.This book is about ordinary lives faced with the dilemmas of not being 'black' or 'white' in a world which seems to be perceived on these terms.Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of East London.US? 1999 Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe