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Family, Identity and Mixedness

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Critical Mixed Race Studies

Edited by Shirley Anne Tate, University of Alberta, Canada

This series adopts a critical, interdisciplinary perspective to the study of mixed race. It showcases ground-breaking research in this rapidly emerging field and publishes work from early career researchers as well as established scholars. The series publishes short books, monographs and edited collections on a range of topics in relation to mixed race studies and includes work from disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences including Sociology, History, Anthropology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Literature, Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies and Cultural Studies.

Editorial Board: Suki Ali, LSE, UK; Ginetta Candelario, Smith College, USA; Michele Elam, Stanford University, USA; Jin Haritaworn, University of Toronto, Canada; Rebecca King O'Riain, Maynooth University, Ireland; Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education, University of London, UK; Rhoda Reddock, University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago

Previously Published Volumes:

Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Black Mixed-race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and ‘Post-racial’ Resilience Winner of the 2018 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize

Jennifer Patrice Sims and Chinelo L. Njaka, Mixed-race in the US and UK: Comparing the Past, Present and Future Winner of the 2020 Mid-South Sociological Association Standford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award

Shirley Anne Tate, Decolonising Sambo: Transculturation, Fungibility and Black and People of Colour Futurity

Forthcoming in this Series:

Kavyta Kay, The Dougla Body: Orientations of Indianness and Blackness

Jillian Paragg, Mixed Race Life Stories: The Multiracializing Gaze in Canada

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Family, Identity and Mixedness: Exploring ‘Mixed-Race’ Identities in Scotland

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Mengxi Pang

Independent Researcher, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2021

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Dedication

To my parents, Cao Ying and Pang Jinli

Acknowledgements

This book marked my time in Glasgow between 2013 and 2017, and lasted into the year of 2021, three years after I completed my doctoral study. I would like to thank all participants who opened their doors to let me enter their lives. It was humbling to be trusted as such.

I owe a huge thank you to Professor Satnam Virdee and Dr Matt Dawson, who helped me throughout and beyond the PhD journey.

Thank you to Katy Mathers, Helen Beddow, Philippa Grand, Alice Ford and Brindha Thirunavukkarasu for their work at Emerald.

The final thank you is for my family and friends, especially my parents, Cao Ying and Pang Jinli, who have always been unconditionally supportive and loving, and Cao Weilin and Zhai Yunqiao, my dearest cousin and grandma. James, you have been a constant source of positivity.

This book is dedicated to Cao Feng and Cao Guangbin, whom I miss dearly, every day.