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The Creolisation of London kinship: mixed African-Caribbean and white British extended families, 1950-2003
[phd thesis]
Abstract In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new primary evidence of 'mixed-race' in the capital city, The Creolisation of London Kinship thoughtfully explores this population. Making an indelible contrib... view more
In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new primary evidence of 'mixed-race' in the capital city, The Creolisation of London Kinship thoughtfully explores this population. Making an indelible contribution to both kinship research and wider social debates, the book emphasises a long-term evolution of family relationships across generations. Individuals are followed through changing social and historical contexts, seeking to understand in how far many of these transformations may be interpreted as creolisation. Examined, too, are strategies and innovations in relationship construction, the social constraints put upon them, the special significance of women and children in kinship work and the importance of non-biological as well as biological notions of family relatedness.... view less
Keywords
Great Britain; intermarriage; family; social relations; kinship; child; gender role; racism; prejudice; ethnic group; woman
Classification
Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Population Studies, Sociology of Population
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Method
empirical; qualitative empirical; quantitative empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Publisher
Amsterdam Univ. Press
City
Amsterdam
Page/Pages
282 p.
Series
IMISCoe Dissertations
ISBN
978-90-8964-235-6
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works