Author: Steven

  • In the middle of a July night in 1958, a couple living in a small town in Virginia were awakened when a party of local police officers walked into their bedroom and arrested them for a felony violation of Virginia’s miscegenation statute. The couple had been married in the District of Columbia, which did allow…

  • The One-Drop Rule in Reverse? Interracial Marriages in Napoleonic and Restoration France Law and History Review Volume 27, Number 3 Fall 2009 University of Illinois Jennifer Heuer, Associate Professor Department of History University of Massachusetts at Amherst In the early nineteenth century, an obscure rural policeman petitioned the French government with an unusual story.  Charles…

  • Volume 65, Number 1 issue of Journal of Social Issues, (published by The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) is entirely focused on mixed-race issues. Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 pages 1-245 2009-03 You can read this issue online for free here or click on the individual articles below. OVERVIEW AND…

  • Ethnicity and family – Relationships within and between ethnic groups: An analysis using the Labour Force Survey Equality and Human Rights Commission 2009-01-19 Lucinda Platt, Professor of Sociology Institute of Education, University of London This paper outlines the ethnic composition of families in Britain today using the Labour Force Survey household data. That is, it…

  • Mixed Race Organisations in the UK: Joint Statement 2009-09-13 People in Harmony in consultation with: Multiple Heritage Project MixTogether Sputnik Inheritance Project Planet Rainbow Project MOSAIC Black and Mixed Parentage Family Group Intermix Starlight Black Child Mixed Heritage Group As a coalition of mixed race organisations we seek to advance the social well being of…

  • Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report) Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent at Canterbury July 2006 Peter Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana…

  • The United Colors of Family (Interview with Charmaine Wijeyesinghe) UMass Amherst, The Magazine for Alumni and Friends University of Massachusettes Summer 2007 Interviewed by Faye S. Wolfe …Tell us about your work on racial identity. For my dissertation I interviewed people who were black, white, or biracial. I came up with a model for how…

  • The Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports or simply, The Fletcher Report of 1930 was a report sponsored by the Liverpool [England] Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children in December, 1927.  The report, released on 1930-06-16, was written by Muriel E. Fletcher a 1920 graduate of the University of…

  • We are, in fact, at a crucial moment in research on multiraciality.  The idea that race is socially, rather than biologically, constructed is well-accepted in academy and is gaining purchase in the larger society. Most recent research related to multiracial identity begins from the standpoint that racial categories are socially constructed and racial identity is…

  • Racial Ideas and Gendered Intimacies: the Regulation of Interracial Relationships in North America Social & Legal Studies Volume 18, Number 3 (September 2009) DOI: 10.1177/0964663909339087 pages 353-371 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University This article compares the regulation of interracial intimacies in North America, contending that anti-miscegenation laws in the United States…