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  • Loudoun Square: A Community Survey-I (An Aspect of Race Relations in English Society)

    Loudoun Square: A Community Survey-I (An Aspect of Race Relations in English Society) The Sociological Review Volume a34, Issue 1-2 (January 1942) pages 12–33 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1942.tb02744.x K. L. Little Recent research in North America has brought more clearly to light certain facets of urban and contemporary social life, more particularly in the shape of the…

  • The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool

    The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool The Sociological Review Volume 3, Issue 1 (July 1955) pages 65-75 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1955.tb01045.x Maurice Broody Some of the most urgent social problems of a cosmopolitan seaport city like Liverpool are problems of adjustment between ethnic minorities and the indigenous society into which they have migrated. This adjustment…

  • Science must not invent new myths about race

    Science must not invent new myths about race London Evening Standard 2009-11-16 Lindsay Johns Science and race have never been easy bedfellows. Since Victorian times, when Western scientific advancement was used as an intellectual and moral justification for European colonial expansion, science or pseudo-science has occupied an uncomfortable place in our understanding of race. Yet…

  • Racialised relations in Liverpool: A contemporary anomaly

    Racialised relations in Liverpool: A contemporary anomaly   Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 17, Issue 4 (1991) pages 511-537 DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1991.9976265 Stephen Small, Associate Professor, African American Studies; Associate Director of the Institute of International Studies; Director, The Rotary International Center for Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution University of California, Berkeley The…

  • Home and Identity for Young Men of Mixed Descent

    Home and Identity for Young Men of Mixed Descent Queen Mary University of London 2009 319 pages Akile Ahmet Mixed descent identities span ethnic, religious, and cultural identities as well as race. This thesis addresses the multi-layered identities embodied by young men of mixed descent in relation to their ideas and lived experiences of home.…

  • Pauline Black launches her autobiography

    Pauline Black launches her autobiography Louder Than War 2011-08-04 Miles Barter Pauline Black launches her autobiography, ‘Black By Design’   Music was hardly mentioned as Selecter frontwoman Pauline Black launched her autobiography at Houseman’s radical bookshop in London on Wednesday evening (last night 3 Aug).   She told the 70 people packed into a sweltering…

  • Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir

    Powerful autobiography from the front woman of influential ska band, The Selecter

  • For black Britons, this is not the 80s revisited. It’s worse

    For black Britons, this is not the 80s revisited. It’s worse The Guardian 2011-08-11 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor Our MPs are ‘on message’, our media in decline and the Commission for Racial Equality abolished. Who speaks for us? This is not 1981. Nor 1985. As has been pointed out over the past few days,…

  • Preview Of Essential Guide To Working With Mixed-Race Young People

    Preview Of Essential Guide To Working With Mixed-Race Young People Manchester Metropolitan University Tuesday, 2011-10-04, 10:00-12:30 BST (Local Time) Thursday, 2011-10-06, 10:00-12:30 BST (Local Time) ‘Political Correctness’ has gone wrong. Let us help you talk about the subject in a practical and productive way. Come along to our next training session!! Who we are: Mix-d:…

  • Mixed Race Season

    Mixed Race Season BBC Press Office BBC Two Summer & Autumn 2011 Diverse, stimulating and rewarding television on BBC Two 2011-06-22 Mixed-race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn in a collection of revealing new programmes. With a mix of drama and documentaries, the season provides a window into the varied lives of mixed-race…