Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Category: United Kingdom

  • Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by Sara Salih (review)

    Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by Sara Salih (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 25, Number 4, Summer 2013 pages 777-780 DOI: 10.1353/ecf.2013.0025 Nicole N. Aljoe, Assistant Professor of English Northeastern University Sarah Salih, Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present…

  • When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain

    When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. 1987 300 pages 220 x 140cm Hardback ISBN: 9781850430391 Graham Smith An important chapter in the history of World War II is here explored for the first-time—how the arrival of the black troops strained war-time…

  • Two worlds… One reflection

    Two worlds… One reflection IDEATE: The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology University of Essex, Colchester, England Volume 10, Summer 2013 19 pages Yasmin Currid Introduction I went through most of my childhood believing that my family was just the same as everybody else’s. I did not realise that there was something slightly different about the dynamics…

  • CERS hosts Critical Mixed Race Studies postgraduate symposium

    CERS hosts Critical Mixed Race Studies postgraduate symposium School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies University of Leeds 2013-08-08 Peter Edwards, Faculty Web Development Officer Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) held its first interdisciplinary, international postgraduate symposium on the 18th May 2013 entitled…

  • Still policing the crisis? Black and black and white mixed ‘race’ [Seeking Interviewees]

    Still policing the crisis? Black and black and white mixed ‘race’ Seeking Interviewees] University of Leeds Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 2013-08-12 Lisa J. Long, Doctoral Researcher School of Sociology and Social Policy I am a Ph.D. Researcher at the University of Leeds. I am interested in understanding the experiences that black or black and white…

  • Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe

    Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe Duke University Press 2012 256 pages 118 photographs, 10 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5074-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5056-9 Tina M. Campt, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program Barnard College In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of…

  • Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: a story of white working-class mothers with mixed-race children

    Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: a story of white working-class mothers with mixed-race children Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 8 (August 2013) Special Issue: Mothering Across Racialised Boundaries pages 1342-1358 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.776698 Lisa McKenzie, Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Nottingham This paper introduces a group of white working-class women…

  • Akala: Dynamite by any other name…

    Akala: Dynamite by any other name… The Guardian The Observer 2013-06-01 Kate Mossman Rapper, adapter of Shakespeare and brother of Ms Dynamite, Akala is on a mission to correct a few misconceptions A few weeks ago in these pages, Birmingham rapper Lady Leshurr asked why there had been no high-profile female rappers in the UK since…

  • Mental health service use by adolescents of Indian and White origin

    Mental health service use by adolescents of Indian and White origin Archives of Disease in Childhood Published online: 2013-07-29 DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-303772 Panos Vostanis, Professor of Psychology University of Leicester Nadzeya Svirydzenka, Research Assistant Department of Psychology University of Leicester Pat Dugard, Independent Senior Statistician King’s Lynne, United Kingdom Swaran Singh, Professor of Social and Community…

  • Burton Mixed Heritage Oral Hers/His story project

    Burton Mixed Heritage Oral Hers/His story project East Staffordshire Rights & Equality Council (ESREC) July 2012 39 pages The mixed heritage community is the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the UK and is predicted to be the largest minority ethnic group by 2020.The ethnicity category Mixed was first introduced in the 2001 UK Census,…