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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Why did the BBC cast a mixed-race Porthos in The Musketeers? The Guardian 2014-01-28 Stuart Jeffries, Feature Writer and Columnist Certain viewers are non-plussed by the casting of a musketeer of colour, but surely blind casting is preferable to an historical whitewash Studs in leather? Check. Swordplay? Check. Buckled swash? Check. Medieval cleavages? Check. Over-complicated…
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A new generation of viewers are being introduced to the swashbuckling adventures of D’Artagnan and his friends and brothers in arms Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Many will know their motto, “All for one, One for all”…
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An unmanageable Commodity to have imported into this white Country: Growing up Mixed-Race in India and Scotland, 1780-1830 Institute of Historical Research Senate House (Room 103) Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Tuesday, 2014-01-14, 17:15-19:15Z Ellen Filor University College London Seminar Series: Life-Cycles (Spring Term 2014) This seminar series will address issues relating to the life-cycle…
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The story behind Dido Belle – the bi-racial Londoner who helped end slavery in Britain London Evening Standard 2014-01-08 Susannah Butter Susannah Butter tells the tale of Dido Belle, ahead of the release of a film about her extraordinary life starring Tom Felton and Miranda Richardson. Among the many aristocratic faces gazing out of frames…
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Jackie Kay on reading out an anti-racist poem at a football ground The Guardian 2012-10-26 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Jackie Kay readies for an experiment – being a poet on Sheffield United’s pitch and helping to kick racism out of football On Monday I’m going to be pitching my anti-racist poem…
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Roots Entwined by Audrey Dewjee Tangled Roots: Literature and events to celebrate mixed-race people in Yorkshire 2013 Audrey Dewjee Yorkshire-born Audrey Dewjee has been married for over 40 years to a Zanzibari of Indian ancestry. She has been researching British Black and Asian History since the mid-1970s, and is currently a member of Leeds Diasporian…
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Scotching Three Myths About Mary Seacole British Journal of Healthcare Assistants Volume 7, Issue 10, (October 2013) pages 508-511 Elizabeth Anionwu, Emeritus Professor of Nursing University of West London Mary Seacole has received unprecedented media coverage due to the phenomenal success of the Operation Black Vote petition to keep her included in the national curriculum.…