Mixed Race Studies

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  • Interview: Jackie Kay

    Interview: Jackie Kay The Journal Newcastle upon Tyne 2013-03-30 Jackie Kay is about to be read in places most writers never reach. David Whetstone spoke to her. YOU can imagine there are lots of things a writer dreams of – literary prizes, lucrative deals, maybe a film adaptation. But a different accolade has come the…

  • Speaking in Tongues

    Speaking in Tongues The New York Review of Books Volume 56, Number 3 (2009-02-26) Zadie Smith The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1. Hello. This voice I speak with these days, this English voice with its rounded vowels and consonants in more or less…

  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective

    Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective Palgrave Macmillan September 2000 186 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-312-23219-1 ISBN10: 0-312-23219-5 Mark Christian, Professor of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Multiracial Identity provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews)…

  • Mixed Race Identities

    This book investigates the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in higher education in Britain, and it is the first to explore the identifications and experiences of various types of mixed race individuals. It reveals the diverse ways in which these young people identify and experience their mixed status, the complex…

  • Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football

    Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York pages 131-144 in the volume Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Routledge 2011-03-29 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88205-7…

  • Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands James Blackwood Paternoster Row 1857 198 pages Mary Seacole (1805-1881) Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work as an inn-keeper and as a…

  • The Difficulty of Defining “mixed-race”

    The very definition of a “mixed-race” society is fraught with difficulty, and this is one of the problems of acknowledgement, even in Liverpool. All the current terms are inadequate: The term “half-caste” has long been discredited, but even newer terms; “mixed-race” and “dual heritage” have their own problems. “Dual heritage” suggests a child living with…

  • At school I was called a half-caste. Today I’m proud: As census reveals over a million Britons were born to inter-racial relationships, one woman’s moving story

    At school I was called a half-caste. Today I’m proud: As census reveals over a million Britons were born to inter-racial relationships, one woman’s moving story The Daily Mail 2012-12-11 Tanith Carey Whenever the moment comes when I have to choose the box on the Census that asks me to describe my national identity, my…

  • The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse

    The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse Springer 2013 348 pages 32 illustrations Hardcover ISBN 978-94-007-4607-7 eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4608-4 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4608-4 Edited by: Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context Discusses the introduction of new forms of visual media…

  • Being Mixed Race: What are the identity politics of the million-strong ‘Jessica Ennis generation’?

    Being Mixed Race: What are the identity politics of the million-strong ‘Jessica Ennis generation’? Women of the World Festival Southbank Centre 2013-03-06 through 2013-03-10 Sunday, 2013-03-10, 12:00-13:00Z Level 5 Function Room Royal Festival Hall Panelists: Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of…