Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Black and white sexual pairings, therefore, became a widespread phenomenon that originated from a demographic imbalance, but expanded and developed through a cultural fetishization of women of color. The islands, built upon complex systems of violence and sexual control, promoted and legitimated interracial relationships. Caribbean visitors certainly held this impression. Pierre McCallum emphasized the importance…
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Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Migration from the West Indies to Britain, 1750-1820 The University of Michigan 2010 481 pages Daniel Alan Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History) in The University of Michigan 2010 This dissertation shows…
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White mother given mixed race sperm in IVF loses compensation claim British Medical Journal Volume 341, Number 5806 2010-10-15 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c5806 Clare Dyer Two children in Northern Ireland whose white mother was mistakenly impregnated with sperm from South Africa labelled “Caucasian (Cape Coloured)” during in vitro fertilisation have failed in a compensation claim at the…
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Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy European Journal of Human Genetics Volume 15 (2007) pages 288–293 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201771 Turi E. King University of Leicester Emma J. Parkin University of Leicester Geoff Swinfield Geoff Swinfield Genealogical Services, Mottingham, London Fulvio Cruciani Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’…
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Mixedness and The Arts Runnymede Thinkpiece Runnymede Trust July 2010 18 pages ISBN: 978-1-906732-63-9 (online) EAN: 9781906732639 (online) ISBN: 978-1-906732-64-6 (print) EAN: 9781906732646 (print) Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University This think piece explores the presentation of mixed-race identity in the sphere of arts and culture…
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Mixed-race models ignored by British fashion industry The Independent 2010-10-03 Emily Dugan They are under-represented on the catwalk – so they are holding their own glamorous contest From triumph in the White House to Olympic and Formula One garlands, via just about every stage and screen, mixed-race people have made massive leaps forward in the…
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A dissertation: ‘Mixed-race’ identity among young adults in Britain University of Sussex 2010 Sophie Kingham This article addresses the various processes through which ‘mixed-race’ identity is constructed with relation to a national British identity. A multiplicity of belongings which are negotiated on an everyday basis were explored and analysed, alongside theoretical issues and problematic terminology.…
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Soul Search The Post Cork, Ireland 2010-09-05 Nadine O’Regan When poet and novelist Jackie Kay started the search for her birth parents, she didn’t realise how traumatic a journey it would be, though she doesn’t regret doing it. Jackie Kay met her birth father for the first time in a hotel room in Abuja, Nigeria,…