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  • Texting Obama: Poetics/Politics/Popular Culture Sponsored by English Research Institute, the Manchester Writing School at MMU and The Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Research 2010-09-07 through 2010-09-10 Texting Obama: Poetics/Politics/Popular Culture is an Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, mapping and exploring the specific historical, political and cultural climates in which Obama(’s) texts operate. Barack…

  • Davidson Welcomes New Professors into the Fold Davidson College Davidson, North Carolina 2007-08-30 Rachel Andoga Davidson welcomes five new assistant professors into tenure-track positions this semester. Here are  profiles of their careers and academic interests. Caroline Beschea-Fache, a native of northern France, joins the French Department as a specialist in Métissage, the study of biracialism,…

  • “What is In My Blood?”: Contemporary Black Scottishness and the Work of Jackie Kay [Book Chapter] Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi B.V. 2002-09-15 328 pages ISBN-10: 9042014180 ISBN-13: 978-9042014183 pp. 1-25(25) edited by Teresa Hubal and Neil Brooks Peter Clandfield, Assistant Professor of English Studies Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada The work of the…

  • “A gallant heart to the empire.” Autoethnography and Imperial identity in Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures Philological Quarterly Volume 83, Number 2, Spring, 2004 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto A portrait of Mary Seacole in oils, c. 1869, by the obscure London artist Albert Charles Challen (1847–81). The original was discovered in 2003…

  • The Silence of Miss Lambe: Sanditon and Fictions of ‘Race’ in the Abolition Era Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 18, Issue 3 (Spring 2006) pages 329-353 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto Although it would be difficult to argue that Sanditon (1817) is “historical” in any immediately obvious sense, it is nonetheless clear that the…

  • In this article, we examine a large, interdisciplinary, and somewhat scattered literature, all of which falls under the umbrella term race mixture. We highlight important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related, but separate, social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multiracial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies.

  • ‘A modelling competition with a difference’ is being pioneered by social enterprise mix-d:™ at MMU’s business incubator, Innospace News and Events Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Manchester, England 2010-08-02 A MODELLING competition – the first of its kind in the UK to find the mixed race face of 2010 is being organised by social enterprise,…

  • The social care system and mixed race young people: placing the individual child at the heart of decision making People in Harmony Central London, England 2010-11-11 A one-day conference from People in Harmony which will consider why mixed race young people are over-represented in the care system, how they fare in the system and beyond,…

  • White like who? The value of whiteness in British interracial families Ethnicities Volume 10, Number 3 (September 2010) pages 292-312 DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372306 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara The value of whiteness is not fixed, rather it has contradictory and competing meanings among members of Black British interracial families. Drawing upon…

  • Trading Races: Joseph and Marie Bunel, a Diplomat and a Merchant in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue and Philadelphia Journal of the Early Republic Volume 30, Number 3, Fall 2010 pages 351-376 E-ISSN: 1553-0620 Print ISSN: 0275-1275 Philippe R. Girard, Associate Professor of History McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana Based on extensive research in French, British, and…