Mixed relationships, racialised boundaries and white normativity in European Societies. Exploring the lived experiences, identities and representations of black/white interracial families between 1920s-present

With David Herbert & Elizabeth Mavroudi & Line Nyhagen

Social boundaries associated with 'race' and identity and the historical legacy of European dominance have become increasingly contested in our contemporary world. With broader public discussions emerging about mixed-race, bi-racial and interracial identities, anti-black stereotyping and problems of white historical amnesia, privilege and ignorance, and the legitimacy of age-old statues and symbols of white European colonial domination under new public scrutiny, it is imperative for independent, critical social research to engage with, investigate and better understand the roles, complex lived experiences and shifting identities of mixed race people in Europe’s past and present.