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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Interracial relationships and the ‘brown baby’ problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science Seminar Room 1 Tuesday, 2015-11-17, 17:00-18:30Z Lucy Bland, Reader in History Anglia Ruskin University For more information, click here.
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I am a 35-year old mixed race woman (Black Jamaican, Nigerian and White British), born and living in Leeds, Yorkshire the UK and I recently completed a counselling diploma. As part of the work I had to do to achieve my diploma I had to do a great deal of work around examining my racial…
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“My life has gotten white”: Zadie Smith’s Erotics and Ethics of Upward Mobility C21 Seminar Series 2015-16 Centre for Research in Twenty-first Century Writings University of Brighton Falmer Campus 101 Mayfield House Brighton, United Kingdom 2015-11-09, 17:00-18:30Z Sarah Brophy, Professor of English and Cultural Studies McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada In a 2011 Guardian article…
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When I heard the theme for this month was ‘identity’, the word crisis as an appendage kept coming to mind. As a mixed person it, it seems as though the word “crisis” is constantly attached to identity, as though there is confusion somewhere. This is problematic.
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Diversity and cohesion in Britain’s most mixed community Financial Times 2015-10-14 John McDermott At the Barking Road Community Centre in Plaistow, dancers sway and twirl to calypso beats. If the music hints at the centre’s past as an Afro-Caribbean club, the mix of elderly boppers suggest how the composition of this pocket of east London…
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Black History Month Firsts: Lilian Bader Black History Month 2015 2015-10-13 Omar Alleyne Lawler, Editor Lilian Bader, Photo Credit courtesy of the Imperial War Museum The contributions and efforts of Lilian Bader to World War Two for the Caribbean community actually starts before her birth, with her Fathers contribution in World War One. Marrying in…
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Hanif Kureishi: ‘We’re all mixed-race now The Independent 2011-10-23 James Kidd Immigration, Islamism, multi-culturalism – as his new collected stories attests, the hottest topics of the day have long been the bedrock of Hanif Kureishi’s fiction. Just don’t get him started on the joys of ‘Big Brother’… Hanif Kureishi is, by some accounts, a hard…
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Leading Aircraftwoman in the WAAF and one of the first black women to join the British Armed Forces The Independent 2015-04-06 Stephen Bourne Lilian Bader (1918-2015) Bader trained as an instrument repairer, became a Leading Aircraftwoman and soon gained the rank of Acting Corporal. I first met Lilian Bader at the Imperial War Museum in…