Category: United Kingdom

  • Professor Mark Christian on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Episode: #233 – Professor Mark Christian Wednesday, 2011-11-16, 22:00Z (17:00 EST, 14:00 PST) Mark Christian, Professor…

  • Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool Liverpool University Press March 2014 288 pages 16 black and white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 maps 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781846319679 Paperback ISBN: 9781781380000 John Belchem, Emeritus Professor of History University of Liverpool Long before the arrival of the ‘Empire Windrush’ after the Second…

  • Patterns of self-harm and attempted suicide among white and black/mixed race female prisoners Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health Volume 13, Issue 4 (November 2003) pages 229–240 DOI: 10.1002/cbm.549 Jo Borrill Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine University of London Rachel Burnett Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial…

  • Playwright Sarah Rutherford on her play Adult Supervision TheatreVOICE Department of Theatre & Performance Victoria and Albert Museum 2013-10-22 Heather Neill Interview: Sarah Rutherford The playwright talks to Heather Neill about her new drama, Adult Supervision, a story about race which is currently playing at the Park Theatre in London’s Finsbury Park in Jez Bond’s…

  • Review of Adult Supervision at Park Theatre Finsbury Park LondonTheater1.com London 2013-10-20 Alan Franks, Senior Reviewer Adult supervision, if you remember, is what Barack Obama said Washington needed. This was back in 2006, two years before his election as forty-fourth president of the US, and the first black incumbent of the office. So there could…

  • Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea [new edition] Constable & Robinson 2006-11-16 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781845294977 Jane Robinson The ‘Greatest Black Briton in History’ triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent ‘doctress’ combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical…

  • Playwright Sarah Rutherford: ‘Middle-class, mixed-race families are invisible on our stages’ What’s on Stage London 2013-10-10 Editorial Staff As her new play Adult Supervision premieres at the Park Theatre, playwright Sarah Rutherford discusses multiculturalism in modern Britain What’s Adult Supervision about? It’s set in 2008 and it’s about a white ex-lawyer, Natasha, who’s adopted two…

  • Who stole all the black women from Britain? Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-10-17 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London …Here in the UK, the  visibility of black women in representations of mainstream Black British culture is such that you…

  • The Buddha of Suburbia Penguin Press 1990 288 pages 5.07 x 7.83in Paperback ISBN: 9780140131680 Hanif Kureishi Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban London, enduring his teenage years with good humor, always on the lookout for adventure—and sexual possibilities. Life gets more interesting, however, when…

  • Tangled Roots: Stories and events to celebrate multi-racial families and mixed-race people in Yorkshire Tangled Roots Exhibition: Portraits of Writers from Yorkshire taken by Anthony Farrimond Seven Arts, Harrogate Road Leeds, England 2013-09-18 through 2013-10-13 Tangled Roots is an Arts Council funded project which records and celebrates the experiences of multi-racial families in Yorkshire. Tangled…