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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Helen Grant first black female minister in the UK Afro-Europe International Blog 2012-09-09 Helen Grant MP has been made a Minister in David Cameron’s Ministerial reshuffle this September. She is now the first female black cabinet Minister in the UK. Grant, 50, was born in London to an English mother and Nigerian father, but grew…
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Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in the Renaissance University of Toronto Press October 2010 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 9781442641402 eBook ISBN: ISBN 9781442660083 Jean E. Feerick, Assistant Professor of English Brown University Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical…
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Wheeler traces the emergence of skin color as a predominant marker of identity in British thought and juxtaposes the Enlightenment’s scientific speculation on the biology of race with accounts in travel literature, fiction, and other documents that remain grounded in different models of human variety.
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Kelly Holmes is not fully British, says BNP MEP Andrew Brons The Telegraph 2009-06-13 Patrick Sawer Andrew Brons, the BNP’s first MEP, sparked outrage on Saturday after he said double Olympic gold medal winner Dame Kelly Holmes cannot be regarded as fully British. Mr Brons, who became the first member of the British National Party…
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A British Ireland, or the limits of race and hybridity in Maria Edgeworth’s novels Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2009-09-21 73 pages Kimberly Philomen Clarke A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in…
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Afua Hirsch: Our parents left Africa – now we are coming home The Guardian 2012-08-25 Afua Hirsch, West Africa Correspondent As a child in London, Afua Hirsch was embarrassed by her African roots. Then, in February, she became a ‘returnee’, choosing to live in her parents’ birthplace, Ghana. Her story is echoed across the continent:…
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“Slave genes” myth must die Salon 2012-07-24 Amy Bass, Associate Professor of History The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York Michael Johnson links African-American sprinters to slavery, and revisits a particularly ugly pseudo-science In 1988, Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder (in)famously stated that the prowess of African-American football players could be traced to slavery,…
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“Imoinda’s Shade” examines the ways in which British writers utilize the most popular African female figure in eighteenth-century fiction and drama to foreground the African woman’s concerns and interests as well as those of a British nation grappling with the problems of slavery and abolition.