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'An admirable, indeed heart-warming, book.' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 'The books conceptual arguments are both persuasive and provocative. Ali introduces theoretical questions with economy and clarity, speaking equally well to scholars and researchers and to educators, activists and parents. While it is theoretically sophisticated and methodologically innovative, this book should gain wide circulation beyond the academy, particularly among teachers.' Kari Dehli, University of Toronto At a time when teachers and other professionals are searching for ways of understanding mixed race and people who construct themselves as insiders to mixed-race categories are debating how to represent themselves, Mixed Race, Post-Race makes an important and timely contribution to this area. It is an original, insightful and theoretically sophisticated analysis of the social representations, common-sense understandings and lived experiences associated with mixed race both Suki Alis own and those of 8-11 year old children and their families. The book engages with the contradictions between contemporary cultural theory that focuses on the necessity of thinking post-race and recognising hybridity and diaspora space and the pervasiveness of racism and binary black-white thinking that both reproduces race thinking and renders mixed-race invisible. Alis empirical focus on mixed-race children and families explores everyday practices and identities in relation to race and ethnicity at home and at school. The mix of autobiography, biography and ethnographic research in schools and with families in Mixed Race, Post-Race is methodologically innovative and challenges simplistic understandings of race, nation and culture and their intersections with gender and ethnicity. This vivid and clearly-written account will undoubtedly be widely read. Anne Phoenix, Open University 'Mixed-Race, Post Race is a fundamental contribution to scholarship about the meanings that we attach to ideas of race and ethnicity. Suki Ali has managed to weave together challenging empirical research with original theoretical reflection to provide a timely analysis of mixed race identities. This is a remarkable study that needs to be read by all concerned with these issues academically and in everyday life.' John Solomos, City University, London '...Ali has certainly identified a topic worth pursuing, and her insistence on post-race thinking and theorizing to de-recognize 'race' even as we try to undermine it is to be applauded and encouraged.' Lionel Caplan, The Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute

An admirable, indeed heart-warming, book. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies The book's conceptual arguments are both persuasive and provocative. Ali introduces theoretical questions with economy and clarity, speaking equally well to scholars and researchers and to educators, activists and parents. While it is theoretically sophisticated and methodologically innovative, this book should gain wide circulation beyond the academy, particularly among teachers. Kari Dehli, University of Toronto Ali has certainly identified a topic worth pursuing, and her insistence on 'post-race' thinkign and theorizing to 'de-recognize race even as we try to undermine it' is to be applauded and encouraged. Royal Anthropological Institute

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Suki Ali Sociology Department, London School of Economics.

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