Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Forgotten Diaspora

    The Forgotten Diaspora The Official Gateway to Scotland 2008 Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences Heriot-Watt University I was born in Jamaica in 1940, the largest British island in the Caribbean. I emigrated to London in 1955 to join my mother and earn a living. She had emigrated in 1948. In…

  • Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs

    This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories…

  • Plaque honour for ‘first black star’ Elisabeth Welch

    Plaque honour for ‘first black star’ Elisabeth Welch BBC News 2012-02-27 The singer Elisabeth Welch is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in south-west London. She is the second black woman to be honoured with a blue plaque in London. It will be unveiled in Ovington Court, Kensington, which was her home…

  • In Conversation with Mix-d

    In Conversation with Mix-d the mixed project 2012-04-13 First to enter is Jeanette. Attired in an elegant blouse, she is ready for her close-up. Her sweet smile and murmur of ‘good morning’ gets immediate replies from the rest of us in the studio. Jeanette’s blue eyes will not get completely accustomed to the dim lighting,…

  • A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales

    A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn, Germany Discussion Paper No. 6394 February 2012 21 pages Zhiqiang Feng, Research Fellow University of St. Andrews Maarten van Ham, Professor of Urban Renewal Delft University of Technology and IZA Paul Boyle,…

  • Black people ‘least satisfied of UK population’

    Black people ‘least satisfied of UK population’ BBC News 2012-02-28 Black and mixed-ethnic Britons are less satisfied with their lives on average than the UK population as a whole, a survey suggests. Some 80,000 people across the UK, polled by the Office for National Statistics, produced an average life satisfaction rating of 7.4 out of…

  • Mixed Race Jamaicans in England

    Mixed Race Jamaicans in England A Parcel of Ribbons: Eighteenth century Jamaica viewed throught family stories and documents 2012-01-28 Ann Powers The status of  mixed race Jamaicans in eighteenth century Jamaica was always going to be less than than of white colonists, but it was possible for them to become established and successful in England.…

  • Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

    Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the…

  • Making sense of ‘mixture’: states and the classification of ‘mixed’ people

    Making sense of ‘mixture’: states and the classification of ‘mixed’ people Ethnic and Racial Studies Avaiable online: 2012-02-01 9 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.648650 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, United Kingdom Diversity and the growth of ‘mixed’ people In many Western multi-ethnic societies, and increasingly in non-Western societies, ‘super-diversity’ has emerged as a major…

  • Mix-d: Museum

    Mix-d: Museum Mix-d:™ 2012-02-27 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow London South Bank University Peter Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK The overall aim of the project is to explore the potential of translating knowledge through technology. Working together with Mix-d, the team will draw on…