Is racial mismatch a problem for young 'mixed race' people in Britain? The findings of qualitative research

Ethnicities

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 730-753

  Song, Miri ^a   Aspinall, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British; identification; misrecognition; mixed race; multiracial; national identity; phenotype; racial mismatch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870227133     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796811434912     Document Type: Article

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