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  • Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona The Nation 2012-02-08 Gary Younge In 1997 black America gained a new hero when Tiger Woods putted himself into history at the US Masters. Within a few weeks, it had lost him in an unlikely fashion—to a bespoke racial identity articulated on Oprah’s couch.    Does it bother you…

  • When the Mirror Speaks: The Poetics and Problematics of Psychic Performance for métisse Women in Bristol Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Chapter in: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Change Macmillan 1999 pages 206-222 ISBN-10: 0312217633; ISBN-13: 978-0312217631 Edited by: Rohit Barot, Harriet Bradley, and Steve Fenton Note…

  • Answer Formats in British Census and Survey Ethnicity Questions: Does Open Response Better Capture ‘Superdiversity’? Sociology Volume 46, Number 2 (April 2012) pages 354-364 DOI: 10.1177/0038038511419195 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK During a period of unprecedented ethnicity data collection in Britain, an…

  • The Interracial Family in Children’s Literature The Reading Teacher Volume 31, Number 8 (May, 1978) pages 909-915 Margo Alexandre Long Books about interracial families have just recently begun to reflect America’s pluralistic society. A Discussion of the interracial family (a family unit in which members are of various racial backgrounds) in American children’s literature must…

  • Mixed-race Rose contestant snubs racist websites Sunday Tribune, Dublin, Ireland 2008-08-03 Ken Sweeney A mixed-race contestant who is competing in this year’s Rose of Tralee says she has no fears about travelling to Ireland to take part in the contest despite a series of racist remarks made against her on a website. London Rose Belinda…

  • Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain University of Leicester Press Release 2007-01-24 Research reveals African origins in the UK and US New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst “indigenous” British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their…

  • Multinational families, creolized practices and new identities: Euro-Senegalese cases Oxford University The Oxford Diasporas Programme 2011-01-01 through 2015-12-31 Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, Oxford Diaspora Programme Research Fellow, African Studies Centre Junior Research Fellow St Anne’s College, University of Oxford The Oxford Diasporas Programme is a five-year research programme involving various centres at the University of Oxford and…

  • Jackie Kay wins Scottish Book of the Year The Edinburgh Reporter 2011-08-26 Creative Scotland is delighted to announce that award winning poet and author, Jackie Kay, has been awarded the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year, in partnership with Creative Scotland, for her autobiography Red Dust Road. Jackie Kay received her £30,000…

  • A Jazz Celebration – Remembering the Life of Philippa Schuyler Southbank Centre London, England The Clore Ballroom 2012-01-27, 17:30Z The Abram Wilson Quartet Charismatic New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist Abram Wilson debuts original music inspired by the life of the Harlem born, mixed race classical piano prodigy, Philippa Schuyler, who died tragically young in 1967.…

  • Crossing the Color Line: Narratives of Passing in American Literature St. Mary’s College of Maryland English 400.01 Fall 2008 Christine Wooley, Assistant Professor of English       This course will consider representations of passing (and thus also miscegenation) in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture. While passing has often been depicted-and dismissed-as an act of racial betrayal,…