2024-11-0920190038-026110.1177/00380261198821452-s2.0-85074397920https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/2782Based on empirical, qualitative research on 'social mixing' in multi-ethnic London schools, this article argues for a conceptualisation of social mixing as an exchange of the self. Through analysis of three working-class, minority ethnic students who attempt to 'cross borders' into White middle-class subcultures, I explore the differing capital value embodied in their raced, classed and gendered identity positions. Friendships across this border are characterised by 'semi-investments' on both sides, and promise only partial possibilities for social mobility via social mixing, through limited access to academic capital and embodied Whiteness.pdfSociologySocial mixing in urban schools: class, race and exchange-value friendshipsJournal Article1467-954Xhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119882145491608300001N/ANOIR01984