Scattered Belongings

<p>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'.<br>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.</p> 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.