Derrière le mythe métis - [Behind the mixed-race myth] -Book review in French, from La Vie des Idées, of the 2024 study by sociologist Solène Brun.

A 2024 sociological study, built on interviews with parents of mixed children in France, asks a question every mixed family lives with: how is racial identity passed on when parents and children may not be seen, or racialized, the same way?

Brun pushes past the idealized postcard image of métissage to the real negotiations inside mixed families: what gets named, what gets celebrated, what gets quietly navigated. It is French scholarship arriving at questions American researchers know well, which is itself evidence that these are family questions before they are national ones.

Read the original: https://laviedesidees.fr/Solene-Brun-Derriere-le-mythe-metis