Scattered Belongings

Taylor & Francis

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. > 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 \u201Crace,\u201D \u201Cmixed race\u201D and social hierarchies -- 2 Returning(s): relocating the critical feminist autoethnographer -- 3 Setting the stage: invoking the griot(te) traditions as textu.