Contributors to this international and interdisciplinary collection interrogate notions of mixedness and mixing, and challenge stereotypical assumptions. They advance debates in the field through illuminating the complexity of specific historical trajectories, administrative practices and lived experience.

1. Introduction to Mixedness and Mixing Rosalind Edwards, Miri Song, Chamion Caballero and Suki Ali 2. Multiraciality and Census Classification in Global Perspective Ann Morning 3. Mixed-race Across Time and Place: Contrasting the UK and Australia Ilan Katz 4. From 'Draughtboard Alley' to 'Brown Britain': The 'Ordinariness' of Racial Mixing and Mixedness in British Society Chamion Caballero 5. When Ethnicity Became an Important Family Issue: The Case of Slovenian Istria Mateja Sedmak 6. Constructing Multiraciality in US Families and Neighbourhoods Steven R. Holloway, Richard Wright and Mark Ellis 7. Finding Value on a Council Estate: Voices of White Mothers of Mixed-Race Children in St Anns, Nottingham Lisa McKenzie 8. A Descriptive Account of Those Self-Identifying as of Mixed Ethnicity in Great Britain Lucinda Platt 9. 'Mixed race' Young People's Differential Responses to Misrecognition in Britain Miri Song and Peter Aspinall 10. How National Context Shapes International Comparison of 'Mixed' People: The Example of German, French and British Large-Scale Survey Datasets Anne Unterreiner 11. Notes on Mixed Race Methodologies: A Critical Auto-Analysis of the Research Process in A Qualitative Mixed Race Study Minelle Mahtani 12. Situating Mixed Race Politics Suki Ali