Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Based on the soul-searching memoir by Scots Makar Jackie Kay, adapted by Tanika Gupta, and directed by Dawn Walton.
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Charting parallels between childhood and motherhood by Lou Mensah.
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The school experiences of mixed-race white and black Caribbean children in England Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2018.1519586 Kirstin Lewis Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, London School of Education, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom Feyisa Demie, Honorary Fellow School of Education University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom This…
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In a new poem for Radio 4, Hannah Lowe explores the mysteries surrounding the lives of her Chinese Jamaican family.
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When I tell people that my mother was a white English woman and my father Igbo, they look at me skeptically. It’s a pause that really means; are you sure? You’re so dark. It’s a pause that I’ve heard only in the West. In Nigeria most people know on meeting me that I’m not entirely…
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‘In reality, being mixed has historically been incredibly difficult and isolating, and although I don’t feel that is the case as much now, I do think society has to be careful not to reduce or fetishise us.
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This article contributes to the foregrounding of this more complex history through focusing on accounts of interracial ‘ordinariness’—both presence and experiences—throughout the early decades of the twentieth century, a time when official concern about racial mixing featured prominently in public debate.
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Teeming with life and crackling with energy – a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood, to the ever-changing heart of London
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The History Guy celebrates National Nurses week with the forgotten history of Mary Seacole, who was a British nurse during the Crimean War.