Mixed Race Studies

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  • Lone Mothers of Children from Mixed Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds: A Case Study

    Lone Mothers of Children from Mixed Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds: A Case Study Single Parent Action Network (SPAN) January 2010 41 pages Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow London South Bank University This report draws on case study findings with 10 lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children to look at their everyday experiences of…

  • Love in black and white

    Love in black and white Electronic Precinct University of Liverpool August 1998 Muriel Fletcher and Margaret Todd, (second and third from left, middle row) with students and staff of the School of Social Science 1926-27 Source: University of Liverpool Two students who graduated from this University in 1927 play important roles in the film ‘Love…

  • BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain

    BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain British Broadcasting Corporaton 2010-03-10 Mixed-Race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but 100 years ago people of…

  • Mixed Race Beauty Gets a Mainstream Makeover

    Mixed Race Beauty Gets a Mainstream Makeover TruthDig 2011-03-07 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Are mixed race faces considered the most beautiful? A recent report from Allure magazine says yes. Results of a survey conducted by Allure reveal that 64 percent of its readers thought mixed race was the most attractive. The editors…

  • Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiah [Amaye Review]

    Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiah [Amaye Review] New Black Arts Alliance 2011-02-18 Muli Amaye, Part 1 Tutor, Creative Writing Lancaster University 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…

  • Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words

    Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words Time Magazine: Healthland 2011-02-15 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer Who Are You? If biracial and multiracial celebrities have anything in common, it is that they are often asked to explain themselves. That may sound familiar to any person of mixed ancestry for whom questions like “What are…

  • Mixed Matters: Mixed-race pupils discuss school and identity

    Mixed Matters: Mixed-race pupils discuss school and identity Troubador Publishing March 2011 128 pages 198×127 mm ISBN: 9781848765719 Denise Williams Mixed Matters responds to the dearth of literature about the experiences of mixed-race pupils in British schools. It seeks to examine how much credence schools should give to pupil identities when one parent is white…

  • Neither Black nor White: The Saga of an American Family

    Neither Black nor White: The Saga of an American Family The New World Africa Press 2006-03-03 252 pages 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ISBN-10: 0976876124; ISBN-13: 978-0976876120 Joseph E. Holloway, Professor of Pan African Studies California State University, Northridge Historical novel, which traces the history of the Hadnot family from Gloucester, England in 1585…

  • Identifications and cultural practices of mixed-heritage youth

    Identifications and cultural practices of mixed-heritage youth Paper presented in the eConference on “Mixedness and Mixing: New Perspectives on Mixed-Race Britons” Commission for Racial Equality 2007-09-04 through 2007-09-06 4 pages Martyn Barrett, Professor of Psychology University of Surrey David Garbin, Research Fellow Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism University of Surrey John Eade,…

  • ‘Land of our Mothers’: Home, Identity, and Nationality for Anglo-Indians in British India, 1919–1947

    ‘Land of our Mothers’: Home, Identity, and Nationality for Anglo-Indians in British India, 1919–1947 History Workshop Journal Volume 54, Issue 1 pages 49-72 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/54.1.49 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London This paper explores the symbolic and material intersections of home, identity and nationality for Anglo-Indians (previously known as ‘Eurasians’) in…