Category: United Kingdom

  • Nation, miscegenation, and the myth of the mulatta/o monster 1859-1886 Universite de Montreal (Canada) 2009 261 pages Publication Number: AAT NR60321 ISBN: 9780494603215 Jessica Alexandra Maeve Murphy These presentee a la Faculte des etudes superieures En vue de l’obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en etudes anglaises “Nation, Miscegenation, and The Myth of the…

  • Half-white is an insult The Guardian 2008-11-13 Michael Paulin The debate over how black Obama is obscures the racial reconciliation his election represents Barack Hussein Obama’s stunning victory against what was a thoroughly cynical Clinton campaign and a confused and morally bankrupt conservative Republican opposition is as historically significant as the fall of the Berlin…

  • A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany Palgrave Macmillan September 2010 282 pages 6 x 9 1/4 inches, Includes: 50 pgs illus Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10473-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10473-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10472-3, ISBN10: 0-230-10472-X Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Martin Klimke, Research Fellow German Historical Institute,…

  • Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home Wiley-Blackwell August 2005 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4051-0054-0 Papeback ISBN: 978-1-4051-0055-7 E-book ISBN: 978-1-4051-4130-7 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian…

  • Fatherhood Institute Research Summary: African Caribbean fathers Fatherhood Institute 2010-03-10 The picture for UK fathers of Black Caribbean heritage is complex since as many of their children are now conceived with partners from outside Black Caribbean communities than are conceived within them. This pattern is not yet strong among UK fathers of Black African heritage,…

  • White Skin, White Masks: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique and Louisiana University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2006 83 pages Michael James Rulon A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master…

  • More than a ‘tragic mulatto’ Runnymede Bulletin Spring 2011, Issue 365 pages 26 Zaki Nahaboo Department of Politics & International Studies The Open University, UK Daniel R. McNeil. Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs. London: Routledge, 2009, 186 pp. Hardback ISBN 978-0-415-87226-3, Paperback ISBN 978-0-415-89391-6, eBook ISBN 978-0-203-85736-6. Daniel…

  • In “Transatlantic Spectacles of Race,” Kimberly Manganelli argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately, must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity in the nineteenth-century marketplace.

  • Webinar: Mixed Identity and the Arts Runnymede Trust 2011-07-05, 10:30-12:30Z Runnymede Trust is hosting an online seminar (webinar) discussing mixed identity and the arts. The webinar will take the form of a live-streamed discussion between the photographer and visual artist Mark Sealy, the arts consultant and creative producer Samina Zahir and playwright Roy Williams. Their…

  • The Mixing of Races and Social Decay Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 1 (April 1949) pages 11–16 The Right Rev. E. W. Barnes, Sc.D., F.R.S. (1874-1953) Biship of Birmingham, England I have chosen to address you on a subject of great importance. With regard to it strong differences of opinion exist. As we consider various…