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Measuring and quantifying ethnic identities, let alone mixed identities, is a complex and politicized endeavour. The growing prominence and historical importance of mixed ethnic and racial identities, on personal and political levels, amplifies these complexities. This volume is positioned between the literature on ethnic classifications and census taking around the world, and the growing work on mixed racial/mixed ethnic identities—what we refer to more generally as ‘mixedness’, to include ancestral, cultural, and ethnic identifications. We seek to explore the measurement of mixedness on a global scale, highlighting the differences and similarities between countries and within regions, and looking closely at what measuring mixed identities means from an international perspective.
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Rocha, Z.L., Aspinall, P.J. (2020). Introduction: Measuring Mixedness Around the World. In: Rocha, Z.L., Aspinall, P.J. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22874-3_1
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