Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues

    Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues University of Texas Press 2002 6 x 9 in. 324 pp., 4 photos, 1 chart ISBN: 978-0-292-74348-9 Print-on-demand title Edited by Monika Kaup, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Debra Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of English John Carroll University Over the last five centuries, the story of…

  • Specialist mixed-race training event

    Specialist mixed-race training event Mix-d: Professionals, The Multiple Heritage Project is proud to present two specialist mixed-race training events for Black History Month 2009, in Manchester and London. Are you a professional working with young people? Want to really understand the complex issues around ‘mixed-race’? If the answer is yes, then come and join us:…

  • Mixed Heritage – Identity, Policy and Practice

    Mixed Heritage – Identity, Policy and Practice Runnymede Trust ISBN-10: 0-9548389-6-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-9548389-6-6 EAN: 9780954838966 40 pages September 2007 Edited by Jessica Mai Sims Although they are often invisible in debates on race and ethnicity, the 2001 census reveals that the ‘Mixed’ population is the third largest ethnic category in the UK, with predictions that…

  • Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’

    Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’ Pluto Press an imprint of MacMillan May 2001 5.5 x 8.25 inches, 208 pages, 4 figures ISBN: 978-0-7453-1567-6 ISBN10: 0-7453-1567-4 Edited by David Parker, Lecturer and Faculty of Social Sciences School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent One of the fastest growing…

  • Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies

    Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies Comparative Studies in Society and History Volume 51, Issue 2 (April 2009) pages 314-343 DOI: 10.1017/S0010417509000140 David M. Pomfret, Associate Professor The University of Hong Kong Sexual relationships between European men and indigenous women produced racially mixed offspring in all of Europe’s empires. Recent…

  • Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture

    Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture Duke University Press 1998 272 pages 13 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-2105-X, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-2105-7 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-2120-3, ISBN13 978-0-8223-2120-0 Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor, African and African American Studies Duke University Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction…

  • Recasting Race: women of mixed heritage in further education

    Recasting Race: women of mixed heritage in further education Trentham Books January 2008 160 pages 234 x 156mm ISBN: 9781858564050 ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 405 0 Indra Angeli Dewan Department of Sociology University of East London The mixed race population has shown an unprecedented increase in Britain in the last few years, and mixed race…

  • Essentialism and the Perception of Mixed-Race Individuals: Implications for the Sociopolitical Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities

    Essentialism and the Perception of Mixed-Race Individuals: Implications for the Sociopolitical Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2009-07-14 Arnold Ho Harvard University James Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and of African and African American Studies Harvard…

  • Beyond Racial Exceptionalism: Explaining the Convergence of Mixed-Race Census Categorizations in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain

    Beyond Racial Exceptionalism: Explaining the Convergence of Mixed-Race Census Categorizations in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain Canadian Political Science Association 81th Annual Conference 2009-05-27 through 2009-05-29 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University By examining racial classifications in national censuses this paper will explore moments of policy convergence that defy domestic explanations…

  • Metisse Narratives

    Jayne Ifekwunigwe discusses the testimonies of women of ‘mixed race’ parentage in the English-African diaspora.