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  • Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation Routledge 2006-03-02 296 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-35124-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-35125-6 Trim Size: 234X156 Stephen Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Sociology Sheffield Hallam University Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this incisive new textbook examines the shifting meanings of ‘race’ and ethnicity and collates the essential concepts in one indispensable companion volume. From…

  • (Re)constructing multiracial blackness: women’s activism, difference and collective identity in Britain Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 24, Issue 1 (January 2001) pages 29-49 DOI: 10.1080/014198701750052488 Julia Sudbury, Professor and Department Head of Ethnic Studies Mills College, Oakland, California This article analyses the (re)construction of black identity as a multiracial signifier shared by African, Asian and…

  • The Alchemy of Mixed Race – Review Essay The Global Review of Ethnopolitics Vol. 2, no. 3-4 March/June 2003 pages 100-106 Ayo Mansaray University of Middlesex, UK Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Jill Olumide Pluto Press, 2001 pp. 224 (including: foreword, notes, bibliography, index, appendix) Rethinking “Mixed Race” Parker &…

  • ‘Toubab La!’ Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora Cambridge Scholars Publishing July 2007 453 pages ISBN13: 9781847182319 ISBN: 1-84718-231-3 Ginette Curry, Professor of English Florida International University The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, The French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and…

  • Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference Berg Publishers September 2007 224 pages, bibliog., index Paperback ISBN: 9781845202439 Hardback ISBN: 9781845202422 Ebook ISBN: 9781847883438 Mica Nava, Professor of Cultural Studies University of East London Cultural theorist Mica Nava makes an original and significant contribution to the study of cosmopolitanism by exploring everyday English…

  • The Gap Between Whites and Whiteness: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race September 2006 Volume 3, Issue 2 pages 341-363 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X06060231 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Amy C. Steinbugler, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dickinson University How do White members of Black-White…

  • Understanding Interracial Relationships Russell House Publishing June 2009 160 pages ISBN:978-1-905541-53-9 Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire It is no longer a novelty to see people of different races and ethnicity holding hands and going about their daily lives. Between 1991 and 2001, the British population grew by 4.0 per cent, while the mixed population…

  • New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children London South Bank University News 2005-06-02 Dr Toyin Okitikpi with his challenging new book [Working with Children of Mixed Parentage] Proportionately a higher percentage of mixed parentage children end up in care and in Britain we only statistically classify mixed parentage for children where one parent…

  • White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare British Journal of Social Work Volume 29, Number 2 (1999) pages 269-284 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London It is now well documented that the majority of mixed-parentage children who enter the public care system in Britain have a white…

  • Working with children of mixed parentage Russell House Publishing 2005-03-01 160 Pages ISBN:978-1-903855-64-5 Edited by Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire Table of Contents Introduction: mixed responses: working with children of mixed parentage. Looking at numbers and projections: making sense of the census, emerging trends. Mulatto, marginal man, half-caste, mixed race: the one-drop rule in…