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  • The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries

    The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries Eugenics Review Volume 32, Number 4 (January 1941) pages 114-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge In a recently published and noteworthy symposium entitled “Race Relations and the Race Problem,” eleven prominent American writers reviewed the sociological implications…

  • Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report)

    Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report) Eugenics Review Volume 33, Number 4 (January 1942) pages 112-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge With the exception of a large number of family studies secured by Miss R. M. Fleming, little anthropological attention…

  • Researcher presents new views on 18th century mixed races and their families

    Researcher presents new views on 18th century mixed races and their families William & Mary: News & Events 2011-06-15 Andrea Davis Daniel Livesay, NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary, presented a paper at the University of Texas in February that discussed the mixed children…

  • The Hidden History of Mestizo America

    The Hidden History of Mestizo America The Journal of American History Volume 82, Number 3 (December, 1995) pages 941-964 5 illustrations Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles This essay was delivered as the presidential address at the national meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Washington, March 31,…

  • Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire

    Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire Oxford University Press May 2011 320 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780199604159; ISBN10: 0199604150 Damon Ieremia Salesa, Associate Professor of History, American Culture, and Asian/Pacific Islander Studies University of Michigan The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial children,…

  • Lest we forget: the children they left behind: the life experience of adults born to black GIs and British women during the Second World War

    Lest we forget: the children they left behind: the life experience of adults born to black GIs and British women during the Second World War The University of Melbourne 1999 177 pages Janet Baker An estimated 22,000 children were born in England during the Second World War as a result of relationships between British women…

  • On being mixed-race

    On being mixed-race New Statesman 2011-04-07 Samira Shackle I grew up thinking of myself as equally English and Pakistani, writes Samira Shackle. Was I wrong? When I meet people for the first time, it’s not unusual for them to ask, “Where are you from?” If I reply, “London,” they say, “Oh, no, where are you…

  • Anthropological Studies of Children

    Anthropological Studies of Children Eugenics Review Volume 18, Number 4 (January 1927) pages 294-301 Rachel M. Fleming Some ten years ago, with the guidance and help of Professor Fleure, of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, I began to study race type in women, and from the study of divergent-race characteristics…

  • A study of the intelligence of Anglo-Chinese children

    A study of the intelligence of Anglo-Chinese children Eugenics Review Volume 30, Number 2 (July 1938) pages 109-119 P. C. Hu Department of Psychology University College, London I. OBJECT OF THE INQUIRY The present investigation was carried out with the object of determining the general intellectual level of Anglo-Chinese children, and of dscovering what differences,…

  • The Liverpool-Born Black Community

    The history of The Liverpool Black Community seems to have been strangely ignored in the dialogue on asylum seekers and immigration by government pundits.