Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Sugar & Slate

    Sugar & Slate Planet Books January 2002 192 pages ISBN-10: 0954088107 ISBN-13: 978-0954088101 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches Charlotte Williams, Professor of Social Work Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year, 2003 A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father…

  • The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale

    The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale Journal of Black Psychology 2001 Vol. 27, No. 1 pages 86-99 DOI: 10.1177/0095798401027001005 Charmain F. Jackman University of Southern Mississippi William G. Wagner, Professor University of Southern Mississippi J. T. Johnson University of Southern Mississippi The Attitudes Toward Multiracial Children Scale (AMCS) was developed to measure adults’ attitudes concerning…

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review)

    Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Book Review) Pychiatric Services May 2003 Volume 54 Page 751 Published by The American Psychiatric Association Maureen Slade, R.N., M.S., Director of Psychiatry Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Brendan Slade-Smith Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma; Thousand Oaks,…

  • African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation

    African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation University Press of America June 2004 136 pages Paper ISBN: 0-7618-2858-3 / 978-0-7618-2858-7 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University In African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation, author Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas explores how the Africaness of Mexican mestizaje was erased…

  • Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women

    Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women Independent Publishing Group September 2002 288 pages, Cloth, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 6 B/W Photos, 1 Chart, 1 Map ISBN: 9780795701139 (0795701136) Agnes Lottering This is a rare, possibly the first, first-person account of being part of the group of mixed-race families who came into existence…

  • “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism”

    “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association 2009-05-24 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English, Professor, Director of African & African American Studies Stanford University This paper examines how, and to what ends, people of the “mixed race experience” are being…

  • Half-Caste and Other Poems

    ‘Half-Caste’, the title poem of this collection, is one of the set poems for GCSE English for AQA A, the largest spec with 375,000 candidates. But its influence and presence extends well beyond the ‘AQA’ schools, making John Agard one of the most popular, well-known and respected poet-performers on the schools circuit.

  • Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race

    Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race (Also published in the United States by Harvard University Press as Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line) Routledge 2004-08-26 424 pages Trim Size: 234X156 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-34365-7 Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory The London School of Economics and Political Science…

  • Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste?

    Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste? Independent Publishing Group April 2010 316 pages, Trade Paper, 5.75 x 8.25 35 B/W Photos ISBN: 9781921248030 (1921248033) Lorraine McGee-Sippel Compelling and honest, this memoir recounts the diffuse effects of a governmental policy that required the author’s adoptive parents to be informed of her Afro-American ancestry. Chronicling her personal search…

  • Lara

    Lara is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo’s own childhood and family history.