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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Mixed race author on the struggle of having to ‘pick a side’ The Voice 2016-06-05 Davina Hamilton, Entertainment Editor LIFETIME OF LOVE: Gus and sister Chi-chi with their parents Michael and Margaret Author Gus Nwanokwu on growing up with a Nigerian father and Irish mother in 1960s Britain THE PRESSURE to ‘pick a side’, the…
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Black Shamrocks: Accommodation Available – No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016-03-24 482 pages 15.2 x 2.8 x 22.9 cm Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1523490912 Gus Michael Nwanokwu While many academics and social scientists have examined the psychological and societal implications of growing up as a mixed-race person, few works exist that chronicle…
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Becky and Mia – Belonging and Not Belonging The Listening Project: It’s surprising what you hear when you listen BBC Radio 4 2016-06-03 Fi Glover introduces a conversation about the surprising challenges facing a mixed race family at home and abroad. Another in the series that proves it’s surprising what you hear when you listen.…
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Dancer, painter, soldier … Tottenham brothers on their way to the top The Guardian 2016-05-28 Jessica Elgot From left to right, Solomon, Kidane and Amartey … ‘We are fiercely proud – we didn’t feel like these institutions were worlds away.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Maryam Golding’s three oldest sons – an artist, a…
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Tim Brannigan, a real black Irish republican The Irish Times Dublin, Ireland 2016-05-28 Fionola Meredith When Tim Brannigan was born his mother persuaded a doctor to declare him a stillbirth. Then she gave him to an orphanage – coming back a year later to ‘adopt’ the son she couldn’t admit she’d had. After that he…
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Where Are You Really From? Culture Northern Ireland 2010-04-10 Joanne Savage Race, republicanism and a mothers love in Tim Brannigan’s memoir Peggy Brannigan met Michael Ekue at a dance in Belfast in 1965. She was from Beechmount; he was a medic from Ghana. Their eyes met, they danced and sparks flew. She was gorgeous and…
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Where Are You Really From? Kola Kubes and Gelignite, Secrets and Lies – The True Story of an Extraordinary Family Blackstaff Press 2010-12-06 208 pages 5.4 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0856408533 Tim Brannigan Tim Brannigan was born in Belfast in 1966, and spent the first year of his life in St Joseph’s…
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Recovering the Afro-Metropolis Before Windrush Christian John Høgsbjerg University of Leeds Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 13, Issue 1 (The Caribbean Radical Tradition) May 2016 Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015), 410 pp. In Black London, Marc Matera’s wide-ranging historical…
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Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century University of California Press May 2015 414 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520284296 Paperback ISBN: 9780520284302 E-Book ISBN: 9780520959903 Marc Matera, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site…