Mixed Race Studies

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  • Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities

    Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities Rodopi 2002 152 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-1378-0 / 90-420-1378-8 Paperback: 978-90-420-1368-1 / 90-420-1368-0 Edited by: Elizabeth Russell, Professor of Womens Studies and British Literature University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona The essays in this collection (on Canada, the USA, Australia and the UK) question and discuss the issues of cross-cultural…

  • Bradley Lincoln of Multiple Heritage Project (mix-d™) Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Bradley Lincoln of  Multiple Heritage Project (mix-d™) Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed.  Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #138 – Bradley Lincoln When: Wednesday, 2010-01-27 00:00Z Bradley Lincoln, Founder Multiple Heritage Project…

  • Mummy’s Black, Daddy’s Yellow and I’m Orange: talking with young children about racial identity

    Mummy’s Black, Daddy’s Yellow and I’m Orange: talking with young children about racial identity National Children’s Bureau Wednesday, 2010-02-24 from 09:30Z to 16:15Z Islington, Islington Overall aim This newly developed course aims to give practitioners confidence and the tools for talking with young children about racial identity. Intended learning outcomes By the end of this…

  • The Future of Ethnicity Classifications

    The Future of Ethnicity Classifications  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 35, Issue 9 November 2009 pages 1417 – 1435 DOI: 10.1080/13691830903125901 Peter J. Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent In the first decade of the twenty-first century, ‘diversity’ has emerged as a key value in its…

  • White Identities: A Critical Sociological Approach

    White Identities: A Critical Sociological Approach Pluto Press 2009-11-06 240 pages Size: 215mm x 135mm ISBN: 9780745327488 Steve Garner, Lecturer in Sociology Aston University Simon Clarke, Director Centre for Psycho-Social Studies University of the West of England The study of white ethnicities is becoming increasingly important in the social sciences. This book provides a critical…

  • “Being Raised by White People”: Navigating Racial Difference Among Adopted Multiracial Adults

    “Being Raised by White People”: Navigating Racial Difference Among Adopted Multiracial Adults Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 71, Issue 1, February 2009 Pages 80-94 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00581.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago There are increasing numbers of multiracial families created through marriage, adoption, birth, and a growing…

  • Patterns of Mixed-Race Migration to Britain in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic

    Patterns of Mixed-Race Migration to Britain in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 15:10 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Daniel Alan Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri With tremendous gender and racial disparities, miscegenation and interracial…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Lara

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