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  • Mapping race: Multiracial people and racial category construction in the United States and Britain

    Mapping race: Multiracial people and racial category construction in the United States and Britain Immigrants & Minorities Volume 15, Issue 2 (July 1996) pages 107-119 DOI: 10.1080/02619288.1996.9974883 Paul R. Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara The social construction of what are often called ‘racial’ categories has proceeded differently in different places. The…

  • Mixed Messages, Mixed Memories, Mixed Ethnicity: Mnemonic Heritage and Constructing Identity Through Mixed Parentage

    Mixed Messages, Mixed Memories, Mixed Ethnicity: Mnemonic Heritage and Constructing Identity Through Mixed Parentage New Zealand Sociology Volume 25, Number 1 (2010) pages 75-99 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology National University of Singapore This article explores the concept of mixed ethnic identity from a social memory-based perspective. Drawing on the…

  • Geographies of diaspora and mixed descent: Anglo-Indians in India and Britain

    Geographies of diaspora and mixed descent: Anglo-Indians in India and Britain International Journal of Population Geography Special Issue: Geographies of Diaspora Volume 9, Issue 4 (July/August 2003) pages 281–294 DOI: 10.1002/ijpg.287 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London This paper explores geographies of diaspora for Anglo-Indians (formerly known as ‘Eurasians’) through a…

  • Fadeout for a Culture That’s Neither Indian Nor British

    Fadeout for a Culture That’s Neither Indian Nor British The New York Times 2010-08-14 Mian Ridge CALCUTTA — Entering the crumbling mansion of the Lawrence D’Souza Old Age Home here is a visit to a vanishing world. Breakfast tea from a cup and saucer, Agatha Christie murder mysteries and Mills & Boon romances, a weekly…

  • Race Crossing

    …Fleming’s use of the term ‘passing’ is also worthy of comment. Not only does it have the connotation of deceit and disguise, but it also implies that the offspring of mixed heritage could never be truly English, despite their birth in England and their English mothers. To cross racial boundaries (‘race crossing’) had two meanings:…

  • The Social Position of White and “Half-Caste” Women in Colored Groupings in Britain

    The Social Position of White and “Half-Caste” Women in Colored Groupings in Britain American Sociological Review Volume 16, Number 6 (December 1951) pages 796-802 Sydney F. Collins University of Edinburgh Sociological studies of colored minority groups in Britain have so far been undertaken only on a limited scale. But the ever-widening interest being shown in…

  • Black, White and Other… Worldwide

    Black, White and Other… Worldwide The Huffington Post 2010-07-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Even though the 21st century is seeing an exponential increase in reports of multiracial ancestry worldwide, exactly what makes a person multiracial remains a puzzling concept. According to the Association of Multiethnic Americans and Project RACE, the definition of…

  • mix-d™: Walsall Youth Conference: Conference: Debate, consultation and fact-find about the UK’s fastest growing population

    mix-d™: Walsall Youth Conference: Debate, consultation and fact-find about the UK’s fastest growing population. mix-d™: Tuesday, 2010-07-13 County Inn, Walsall View all of the photographs from the conference here. Photographs courtesy of Cheshire based photographer Rick Milnes.

  • Hybrid Navigator

    Hybrid Navigator Small Axe Number 32 (Volume 14, Number 2), June 2010 pages 150-159 E-ISSN: 1534-6714 Print ISSN: 0799-0537 Satch Hoyt, Artist/Sculptor I was born in London to an Afro-Jamaican father and a white English mother in the late 1950s. It was, to say the least, a lonely terra nova, a traumatic neocolonial, cross-cultural terrain,…