Category: United Kingdom

  • Mixed Race in Britain Kneeshaw Consulting 2013-03-11 In the 2011 census over a million people in the UK classed themselves as ‘mixed race’ – but for some, the label is unhelpful. The identity politics of the ‘Jessica Ennis generation’ was the subject of a workshop at the Women of the World Festival yesterday at London’s…

  • Hist7362: Histories of Exclusion: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America University College of London 2013 Paulo Drinot, Senior Lecturer in Latin American History This course examines race and ethnicity, and processes of racialised and ethnic exclusion, in Latin America in historical perspective. It invites us to consider the historical role played by race and ethnicity…

  • ‘We have a race problem in England’ The Voice London, England 2013-03-06 Hazelann Williams Arinze Kene says he does not do politics. But for anyone who has seen one of Kene’s plays, it may sound like an unusual statement because the prolific playwright has written many plays about the state of society, ranging from life…

  • This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

  • 2013-03-06 My name is Nina Robinson, a third year photography student at Glamorgan University. To form part of the research for my dissertation about mixed-race identity, I am looking for British mixed-race girls aged 16-25 to fill in my questionnaire. It’s a good way to express your opinions and feelings, be part of a project…

  • The story of the Hay children in Dornoch, however, was not at all unique at the turn of the nineteenth century. Rather, the Hays were members of a regular migration of mixed-race West Indians who arrived in the home country during the period.

  • Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities: Call For Papers Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) University of Leeds 2013-05-18 An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Critical Mixed Race Studies The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) at the University of Leeds invites postgraduate research students to participate in a one-day symposium which will be held on…

  • Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool Princeton University Press 2005 312 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-4008-2641-4 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its…

  • W.N. Herbert and Hannah Lowe: A poetry reading NCLA: Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2013-01-14 Location: Culture Lab, Newcastle University Time/Date: 28th February 2013, 19:15 …Chick is Hannah Lowe’s first collection and is also published by Bloodaxe. With London as their backdrop, Hannah Lowe’s deeply personal narrative poems…

  • Chick Bloodaxe Books 2013-01-24 64 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1852249609; ISBN-13: 978-1852249601 Hannah Lowe Hannah Lowe’s first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London’s old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that…