Category: United Kingdom

  • Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics by Lundy Braun (review) Configurations Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2015 pages 127-130 DOI: 10.1353/con.2015.0000 Lindsey Andrews, Visiting Scholar of English Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Braun, Lundy, Breathing Race into…

  • Race In The Jewish Community: A Mischling’s Perspective The Jerusalem Post 2015-03-30 Ella Bennett Introduction As a person of mixed-race black and maternal Jewish heritage, I am a mischling and feel highly motivated to stand equally against racism and anti-Semitism.  When I go out and about in the Jewish community people naturally see my colour…

  • Shifting race: how language fails the ‘mixed-race’ experience

  • Mary Seacole – International Woman The Huffington Post, United Kingdom 2015-03-04 Elizabeth Anionwu, Emeritus Professor of Nursing University of West London Later this year a memorial statue to Mary Seacole will be unveiled in the gardens of St Thomas’ hospital, overlooking the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament. Sir Hugh Taylor, Chairman of Guys…

  • Tangled Roots: Celebrating mixed race people and families Tangled Roots 2015-03-04 Tangled Roots publishes books, and stages events and performances which explore the mixed race experience in the UK NOW ACCEPTING STORIES FOR OUR NEXT BOOK! Submission Guidelines: Please send up to 2,000 words cut and pasted into an email to tangledroots@live.co.uk. Sorry, attachments will…

  • Being Mixed Race Women of the World Festival 2015 Blue Bar at Royal Festival Hall Southbank Center Belvedere Road, London Saturday, 2015-03-07, 13:30-15:00Z Building on the findings of the Being Mixed Race panel discussions during WOW 2013 and WOW 2014, this workshop expands on issues identified during the previous conversations and focuses specifically on issues…

  • Mixed Race in Manchester – Intersections of Class and Mixed Race Identity Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar. Tuesday, 2015-03-03 Donna J. Nicol, Associate Professor Women & Gender Studies California State University, Fullerton I spent the last three months of 2014 living in Manchester, England helping my…

  • A Look at Race as a Social Construct The Huffington Post 2015-02-03 Kimberly Cooper Sometimes a picture is truly worth a thousand words. For those of us from the “multiracial” or mixed race community, photos of our population — our people, our families, our children — aren’t as shocking as they are an affirmation of…

  • Census categories for mixed race and mixed ethnicity: impacts on data collection and analysis in the US, UK and NZ Public Health Published online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2014.12.017 S. A. Valles, Assistant Professor Lyman Briggs College and Department of Philosophy Michigan State University R. S. Bhopal, Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health;Honorary Consultant in…

  • Been a good while since I put pen to paper. Wait this is awkward, fingers to keyboard rather, 2015 and all that. In any case, I’ve been thinking for a while about something of paramount importance. Me.