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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Mark Duggan’s family lead call for a public inquiry into UK policing The Guardian 2015-06-07 Damien Gayle, Live Desk Reporter Carole Duggan, Duggan’s aunt, said her family had ‘ample evidence’ that police had misled an inquest into his death. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/the Guardian Campaigners say there are deep problems with Operation Trident, which investigates gun…
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Racism under a Friendly Guise Joy Huang Stoffers: Writer and Novelist Saturday, 2015-05-09 Joy Huang Stoffers racism, n. A belief that one’s own racial or ethnic group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one’s cultural identity, racial integrity, or economic well-being; (also) a belief that the members of different racial…
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University of Salford installs new Chancellor, Professor Jackie Kay MBE University of Salford Salford, United Kingdom Friday, 2015-05-01 The University celebrated the official installation of it’s sixth Chancellor, renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay MBE, at a grand ceremony in Peel Hall on Wednesday 29 April 2015. Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated in a ceremony…
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University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor
University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor Manchester Evening News Manchester, England 2015-05-09 Charlotte Dobson, Social Affairs Reporter Prof Jackie Kay MBE appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Salford Professor Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated at a ceremony attended by fellow celebrated writer Jeanette Winterson…
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Having come through some difficult times as a teenager Kira now happily identifies with both of her cultural backgrounds. Annina says that when you are ‘mixed-race’ people make assumptions about your identity and consider it to be “up for debate”, but she is clear that “whiteness is not something I’m a part of.”
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Ticking the box: Finding a place for mixed race The Cambridge Student University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2015-04-25 Chase Caldwell Smith In my life, I have been told many things – that I “look like a bit of a foreigner” or that “I couldn’t tell you were part-Asian before – I can definitely see…
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Bigots beware – you have fewer places to hide in mixed-heritage Britain The Guardian 2015-04-26 Hugh Muir The makeup of Britain is changing. Anyone who thinks they can get away with casual racism is making a big mistake The Runnymede Trust’s report on Race and Elections tells us that one of the groups least likely…
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Today it’s taken for granted that people of all ethnic groups should be treated equally in the armed forces and elsewhere. But as Leslie Gordon Goffe writes, during World War One black officers in the British armed forces faced a system with prejudice at its core.