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  • Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expressions by Black and Mixed Race Women

    Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expressions by Black and Mixed Race Women Troubador Publishing 2006 292 pages 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches ISBN 10: 1905237146; ISBN-13: 978-1905237142 Edited by: Nicole Moore Brown Eyes is a rare collection of poetry and autobiographical writing from a diverse group of black and mixed-race women—everyday women expressing…

  • Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead

    Dawn of the Different: The Mulatto Zombie in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead The Journal of Popular Culture Volume 45, Issue 3 (June 2012) pages 551–571 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00944.x Justin Ponder WHILE ZOMBIE FILMS DO NOT BLATANTLY FOCUS ON miscegenation or mulattos, interracial themes abound in them. In George A. Romero’s Night of the Living…

  • How Do Children of Mixed Partnerships Fare in the United Kingdom? Understanding the Implications for Children of Parental Ethnic Homogamy and Heterogamy

    How Do Children of Mixed Partnerships Fare in the United Kingdom? Understanding the Implications for Children of Parental Ethnic Homogamy and Heterogamy The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 643, Number 1, September 2012 pages 239-266 DOI: 10.1177/0002716212444853 Lucinda Platt, Professor of Sociology Institute of Education, University of London Many…

  • Introducing the Mix-d: Professionals’ Pack

    Introducing the Mix-d: Professionals’ Pack Mix-d: 2012-07-13 Everything you need to work confidently with the mixed-race subject. The Mix-d: Professionals’ Pack is an essential guide for teachers, facilitators, mentors and professional carers. The pack will equip you, your staff and organisation with the resources and knowledge to deal confidently with all aspects of the mixed-race topic……

  • The Arab and the Brit: The Last of the Welcome Immigrants

    Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father’s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century.

  • Black GIs, English women, and ‘brown babies’ (1944-1950)

    Black GIs, English women, and ‘brown babies’ (1944-1950) Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: 2012-07-10 During the period 1942-45 around one million US servicemen were based in England as part of the preparations for the invasion of Europe in June 1944 and around 130,000 (13%) of these were Black (African American) GIs. This caused endless worry for…

  • British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act (1914)

    British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act (1914) Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: 2012-07-10 With the increase of the minority ethnic population in Britain from the turn of the century, popular concerns about interracial relationships grew. The 1914 British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act meant that not only did ‘aliens’ – that is, foreign-born residents,…

  • (An)Other English city: Multiethnicities, (post)modern moments and strategic identifications

    (An)Other English city: Multiethnicities, (post)modern moments and strategic identifications Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 3 (2002) pages 321-348 DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020030301 Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University The interpretive turn in urban studies signals a heightened emphasis on the locus of the city as the site for both the…

  • The creation and intepretation of ‘mixed’ categories in Britain today

    The creation and intepretation of ‘mixed’ categories in Britain today darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture ISSN 2041-3254 Post-Racial Imaginaries [9.1] (2012-07-02) Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent The growth and recognition of ‘Mixed’ in Britain It is difficult to imagine a society (such as Britain) in which ethnic and racial categories,…

  • Mix-d: Museum: Timeline

    Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: Museum Mix-d: 2012-06-30 This work-in-progress Timeline draws on material from a British Academy project conducted by Dr. Chamion Caballero (Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University) and Dr. Peter Aspinall (University of Kent) which explored the presence of mixed race people, couples and families in the early…