Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed Britannia [Reveiw]

    Mixed Britannia [Review] Caliban in London: a postcolonial subject in an imperial capital 2011-10-10 Anindya Raychaudhuri, Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of English Language and Literature University College London Caliban in London has previously reviewed part of the BBC’s new Mixed Race season. Thursday evening saw the screening of the first of a 3 part documentary called…

  • Interview with Zara Paul: A Future Leader

    Interview with Zara Paul: A Future Leader London School of Economics 2011-10-26 Zara Paul recently graduated from LSE. She has been listed among the top 100 black graduates of the UK in the Future Leaders magazine 2011-12. In this interview she talks about her time at LSE, her passion for music, what being mixed race…

  • Mixed Britannia: Part 3 of 3 (1965-2011)

    Mixed Britannia: Part 3 of 3 (1965-2011) BBC Two 2011-10-20 George Alagiah, Host Below is the last episode as four 15-minute videos.

  • Sun uses it’s Arsenal to divide us

    Sun uses it’s Arsenal to divide us Lester Holloway 2011-08-17 Lester Holloway, Liberal Democrat Councillor, Journalist & Equality Campaigner London Borough of Sutton Top footballers are good at what they do but the Government does not turn to Ashley Cole or John Terry for economic advice. By the same token, their views on race shouldn’t…

  • Clench: What are You Fighting For?

    Clench: What are You Fighting For? Commissioned By: Runnymede Trust-UK’s Leading Race Equality Think Tank 2011 Written and directed by Riffat Ahmed Produced by Shane Davey, Courtney Edwards, Riffat Ahmed and Fabien Soazandry of Davey Inc Running Time: 00:15:39 Starring: Hussina Raja as Ash With: Kevin Morris, Jeff Caffrey, Afreen Mhar, Allan Hopwood, and Danny Randall…

  • Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space

    Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space Cultural Anthropology Volume 13, Issue 3 (August 1998) pages 291–325 DOI: 10.1525/can.1998.13.3.291 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The terms black Liverpool and black America, no less than the African diaspora, refer to racialized geographies of…

  • PLAIN PEOPLE: Is There Anywhere?…

    PLAIN PEOPLE: Is There Anywhere?… Time Magazine 1946-03-11 Prewar Britain’s Negro problem was as minuscule as prewar Britain’s Negro population. But the 70,000 U.S. Negro troops who served in Britain during the war left behind hundreds of illegitimate mulatto babies. Last fortnight London’s League of Colored Peoples reported that already 544 children of U.S. Negro…

  • Medieval black Briton found

    Medieval black Briton found The Times of London 2010-05-02 Gillian Passmore A SKELETON uncovered in the ruins of a friary is the earliest physical evidence of a black person living in Britain in medieval times.   The remains of a man, found in the friary in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was destroyed by Henry VIII, have…

  • Britain: More mixed than we thought

    Britain: More mixed than we thought British Broadcasting Corporation 2011-10-07 Mark Easton, Home editor New figures seen by the BBC suggest our mixed race population may be twice the size of official figures—numbering up to two million people Looking at some new figures on ethnic minorities in Britain the other day, I glanced at a…

  • The Fletcher Report 1930: A Historical Case Study of Contested Black Mixed Heritage Britishness

    This article examines a controversial report that focused negatively on mixed heritage children born and raised in the city of Liverpool. The official title was: “Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports.”  The social researcher was Muriel E. Fletcher, who had been trained in the Liverpool School of Social…