Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed Race Identities: Written by Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song

    Mixed Race Identities: Written by Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song The Kelvingrove Review Issue 13: Dialogue Across Decades (2014-05-27) 5 pages Mengxi Pang Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Aspinall, Peter J. and Miri Song, Mixed Race Identities (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 218 pp. As the fastest growing population…

  • Social representations of ‘mixed-race’ in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives

    Social representations of ‘mixed-race’ in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2015-01-23 19 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.992924 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Public Health Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent, United Kingdom Over the last two decades, lay and professional interest in Britain’s ‘mixed-race’ population…

  • Confusion.

    Confusion. Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-01-18 Natalie Armitage London Authenticity. Authentic. What is that? I always wondered, what it meant when people referred to the lentils mum made us as “really authentic, not like that stuff you get in the curry houses thats not real,…

  • No Man’s Nightingale: An Inspector Wexford Novel

    No Man’s Nightingale: An Inspector Wexford Novel Scribner (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) November 2013 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781476744483 Paperback ISBN: 9781476747132 Ruth Rendell A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. A single mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she…

  • Dreams of my mother…

    Dreams of my mother… One Love, One London 2015-01-04 Tony Thomas It’s October 1959; Paddington station is busy… Scanning the departures board for her train a nervous looking woman hurries towards the platform. In one hand she carries a suitcase and holding her other hand tightly is a pretty 2 year old; a mixed race…

  • Beyond the ‘Race’ Concept: The Reproduction of Racism in England

    Beyond the ‘Race’ Concept: The Reproduction of Racism in England Sydney Studies in Society and Culture Volume 4 (1988) pages 7-31 Robert Miles, Associate Dean of Study Abroad and International Exchanges College of Arts and Sciences University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Large numbers of people continue for long periods of time to cling to myth,…

  • Lewis Hamilton wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014

    Lewis Hamilton wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014 BBC News 2014-12-14 Lewis Hamilton has been voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014. The 29-year-old Mercedes driver won his second Formula 1 world title this season and joined an exclusive club by becoming the fourth Briton to win the drivers’ championship at…

  • Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black?

    Lewis Hamilton’s lack of popularity: is it cos he is black? The Guardian London, United Kingdom 2014-11-24 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor The Formula One champion doesn’t seem to earn the plaudits other successful British sports people do, but the criticism of him is ludicrous Yesterday Lewis Hamilton became the first British driver in more…

  • We Need to Talk about Race

    We Need to Talk about Race Sociology Volume 48, Number 6 (December 2014) pages 1107-1122 DOI: 10.1177/0038038514521714 Bethan Harries, Research Associate Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom It is not easy to name racism in a context in which race is almost entirely denied. Despite a recent focus on the ‘silencing’…

  • Big interview – Jayne Olorunda on racism still needing to be tackled in NI

    Big interview – Jayne Olorunda on racism still needing to be tackled in NI The Stephen Nolan Radio Show BBC Radio Ulster 2014-09-05 Stephen Noland, Host Jayne Olorunda was just 2 years old when her Nigerian born father Max was killed by an IRA bomb that was being transported on a train he was travelling…