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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My fear killer will get pension, by daughter of train IRA bomb victim The Belfast Telegraph 2016-12-17 David Young Jayne Olorunda The daughter of a man killed in an IRA blast on a train has claimed her elderly mother would be excluded from a proposed victims’ pension scheme while the IRA terrorist whose bomb killed…
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How a mixed-race love affair between an African prince and an Englishwoman caused an international furore The Daily Telegraph Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2016-12-16 Marea Donnelly, History writer Ruth Williams and her husband Prince Seretse Khama in London in 1949. ONE can only surmise as to whether bank clerk Ruth Williams and her Bechuanaland prince Seretse…
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Jayne Olorunda’s dad was killed by an IRA bomber whose daughter has been made a Sinn Fein MLA. Jayne tells Stephanie Bell this is the last straw and her family is now set to quit Northern Ireland
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Event Review: Salena Godden’s #LIVEwire Album Launch Welcome to the MA in Black British Writing The world-first Masters programme in Black British literature at Goldsmiths, University of London 2016-12-09 Heather Marks Soho holds many secrets, and last night revealed one of them to be Salena Godden’s spoken word album launch at Carnesky’s Finishing School. Descending the…
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Zadie Smith’s Swing Time is a dance to the rhythms of womanhood iNews 2016-11-02 Salena Godden Zadie Smith, Swing Time (New York: Penguin Press, 2016) Swing Time is a quiet and rhythmic book. Just as the title suggests, this book swings, oscillating from past to present, like the steady rhythm of a pendulum. This is…
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From Her Dad To Her ‘Jamish’ Roots, A Poet Pieces Her Story Together All Things Considered National Public Radio 2014-12-28 Arun Rath, Host Growing up in 1970s England, Salena Godden stood out. Her mother was Jamaican and her father was an Irish jazz musician who mysteriously disappeared from her life when she was very young.…
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“Springfield Road” is a journey into childhood in the late 1970s, a time of halfpenny sweets, fish and chips in newspaper, scrumping apples and foraging for conkers. Set in the dawn of Thatcher’s Britain, it’s a salute to every curly-top, scabby knee’d, mixed-up, half-crazy kid with NHS glasses, free school dinners and hand-me- downs, as…
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We are not “belligerent,” “dark” or “bitter” Media Diversified 2016-11-29 Tele Ogunyemi, Co-founder Diaspora Philes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s recent article ‘Blend it like Britain’ is a masterpiece in how to simultaneously erase and fetishize people of colour. Published on 6th November 2016 in the Sunday Times Magazine to promote Amma Asante’s new film ‘A United Kingdom’, the…
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Blend it like Britain The Sunday Times The Times of London 2016-11-06 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown United colours: one in 10 people in this country are in a mixed relationship MORDECHAI MEIRI An acclaimed new movie, A United Kingdom, is set to shine a spotlight on mixed-race relationships — and how British women changed society’s attitude towards…