Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Category: United Kingdom
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Gillian Wearing redefines Birmingham for the 21st century The Telegraph London, United Kingdom 2014-10-31 Bernadette McNulty, Music Editor and Arts Writer Gillian Wearing’s A Real Birmingham Family Photo: Courtesy of Birmingham City Council, Arts Council England and Ikon With her statue of a mixed-race, single-parent family, Gillian Wearing has transformed Birmingham’s city centre, says Bernadette…
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Mixed-race African-Carribean children at risk of falling behind in Reading primary schools Get Reading (Reading Post) Reading, United Kingdom 2014-11-13 Natasha Adkins, Health Reporter The gap between Reading’s under-performing ethnic groups in the Key Stage 2 national curriculum tests has widened to 10 per cent – an increase of three per cent on 2013’s results…
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Ormonde is a chapbook by the award-winning writer Hannah Lowe, which brings together a cycle of poems and unique personal and historical archives to chart the 1947 journey of SS Ormonde, the first post-WW2 ship (more than a year before SS Empire Windrush) to carry immigrants from Jamaica to the UK.
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On The Cusp of Dual Identities #Dispatch: Afropean Everywhere All The Time 2014-11-10 Bani Amor Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist interested in issues of Afro-European identity. He won a Decibel Penguin Prize for a short story included in the ‘The Map of Me’; a Penguin books anthology about mixed-race identity. He…
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BEING a mixed-race black person… Max News: ‘View from the Bottom’ Magazine of Kevin Maxwell London, United Kingdom 2014-11-05 Kevin Maxwell I was talking with a black woman earlier, and we happened to get on to the subject of race – something close to my skin, literally. She said that a lot of mixed-race people…