Zarine L. Rocha - The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification

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This book developed out of a desire to take the study of mixedness to a more international level. There are excellent books and articles in the field of critical mixed race studies, and research on classification forms a part of thisbut to date, there has been little attempt to look at measuring mixed identities on a global scale. Having started with a small list of countries, the project grew dramatically, and with the encouragement of the publisher we tried to cover as much of the world as possible, with varying degrees of success. We are grateful to all those whom we contacted along the way, for their suggestions and encouragement.

We express our indebtedness to all the authors who contributed their scholarly chapters to this volume, both for their writing and for the efficient way they navigated the various administrative processes and complied with our publication timetable.

We acknowledge the help provided by university libraries in providing full-text access to journals and the books of selected publishers.

At Palgrave Macmillan, we thank our initial contact, Tamsine ORiordan, Editorial Director, Social Science, for her support of our project. We also thank Sharla Plant, as Publisher on the Sociology and Social Policy list, for her expert guidance throughout the preparation of the book. We thank the three anonymous reviewers who recommended our proposal. Many thanks also go to Poppy Hull, our editorial contact prior to submission, and to Divya Anish, Springers Production Editor for our volume, and all those involved in the production of our manuscript.

ZLR would firstly like to thank Peter Aspinall, for responding so quickly and positively to the idea of bringing together country case studies on classifying mixedness around the world. He is a leading expert in the field, and it has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with him. Zarine would also like to thank Farida Fozdar for her encouragement and advice in developing the idea for this book, and her chapter co-authors, Robert Didham and Brenda S.A. Yeoh, for their always insightful and scholarly work. A special thanks to Hamada Eleleimy for his Arabic translations. She would also like to thank her family, who have very gracefully put up with deadlines and distractions, and who provide much inspiration.

PJA is particularly grateful to Zarine Rocha, whose inspired idea it was to produce a volume on mixed racial and ethnic classification across the world, and for inviting me to be co-editor at the beginning of 2018. He would also like to thank academic colleagues who have supported his contributions to this volume through discussions and identification of relevant literature. Special thanks are extended to those officials at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) involved in the 2001, 2011, and 2021 Census Development Programmes on the ethnic group question for enabling me to participate in these groups and meet their wider membership. ONS nominated me asNational Convenorfor the ethnic group question in the 2001 Programme that agreed categorization for the Mixed group. I would like to thank my mother, Kathleen Mary Aspinall, for her many kindnesses and inspiration over the years and enay for her encouragement, generosity, and the interest she has shown in the book.