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  • The Changing Face of Liverpool 8

    The Changing Face of Liverpool 8 Diverse Magazine 2009 Dave Clay Four hundred years of shackles and chains, four hundred years of racist names and institutionalised racist games, Slavepool’s history has got to change “Slavepool” by Eugene Lange AKA Muhammad Khalil My mate, the late and inspirational, John Hill once described Liverpool-born Black people as…

  • Black People in Britain: Response and Reaction, 1945-62

    Black People in Britain: Response and Reaction, 1945-62 History Today Volume 36, Issue 1 (January 1986) Paul B. Rich Paul Rich argues that while the official response to post-war immigration was slow to develop, the tensions and white backlash of the late fifties marked its emergence as a national political issue. The Settlers from the…

  • Philanthropic racism in Britain: The Liverpool university settlement, the anti-slavery society and the issue of ‘half-caste’ children, 1919-51

    Philanthropic racism in Britain: The Liverpool university settlement, the anti-slavery society and the issue of ‘half-caste’ children, 1919-51 Immigrants & Minorities Volume 3, Issue 1 (1984) Pages 69-88 DOI: 10.1080/02619288.1984.9974570 Paul B. Rich The history of racial ideology in Britain has focused mainly on extreme groups of the political right. Less attention has been paid…

  • Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada

    Making (mixed-)race: census politics and the emergence of multiracial multiculturalism in the United States, Great Britain and Canada Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 8, 2012 pages 1409-1426 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.556194 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University During the same time period, the United States, Great Britain and Canada all moved towards…

  • The social and economic circumstances of mixed ethnicity children in the UK: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

    The social and economic circumstances of mixed ethnicity children in the UK: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published online: 2011-03-10 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.556745 Lidia Panico, Research Student Department for Epidemiology and Public Health University College London James Y. Nazroo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Cathie Marsh Centre for…

  • The Anglo-Indians: Aspirations for Whiteness and the Dilemma of Identity

    The Anglo-Indians: Aspirations for Whiteness and the Dilemma of Identity Counterpoints The Flinders University Online Journal of Interdisciplinary Conference Papers Volume 3, Number 1 (September 2003) Flinders University of South Australia Sheila Pais James Department of Sociology Flinders University of S.A. The Anglo-Indian, as a distinct ethnic identity, was the product of the racialised social…

  • Cimmerii or Eurasians and Their Future

    A belief in Eugenics was widespread in the early half of the last centenary and amongst its prominent believers were George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. This iniquitous social philosophy supposed that Northern Europeans were superior in civilization to such races as Indians. Anglo Indians who were of mixed blood were considered, even…

  • The Sociological Implications of Demographic Diversity

    Any consideration of the relevance to the United Kingdom of Critical Race Theory should take account of the special factors in the USA that stimulated and shaped the character of the movement. It should also acknowledge the distinction between social theory and social practice. Social practice has usually to be considered within the frameworks of…

  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective by Mark Christian [Book Review]

    Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective by Mark Christian [Book Review] Journal of Black Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (November 2001) pages 261-264 DOI: 10.1177/002193470103200206 Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of African American Studies Temple University Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective, by Mark Christian. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Mark Christian has written a perceptive, enlightening…

  • The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003

    The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003 Amsterdam University Press November 2010 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 978 90 8964 235 6 Elaine Bauer, Fellow at the Young Foundation; Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London In the last 50 years, the United…