Mixed Race Studies

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  • Arts and Mixedness [eConference]

    Arts and Mixedness [eConference] Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Runnymede is currently hosting an online debate on mixed-race identity and the arts. There is a comment from columnist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Mixed-Race Britain: Where Next? Playwright and poet Sabrina Mahfouz also writes about her thoughts on mixed-race identity: A Reflection on Mixedness.  There are also contributions from…

  • A Reflection on Mixedness

    A Reflection on Mixedness Runnymede Trust July 2010 Sabrina Mahfouz, Poet, Writer and Playwright On the 27 May Runnymede and the Arts Council held a joint seminar in which they invited a group of arts practioners and policy makers to come and debate the nature of ‘Arts and Mixedness’; as well as what—if anything—the Arts…

  • Lone Mothers of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Children: Then and Now

    Lone Mothers of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Children: Then and Now Runnymede Trust June 2010 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Information from the UK Census indicates that parents of…

  • Mixed Race Britain: Where Next?

    Mixed Race Britain: Where Next? Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent Journalist My two books on mixed race Britons, Colour of Love (1992) and Mixed Feelings (2001) were among the first non-academic explorations of racial mixing in Britain. In the nine years between the two publications, awareness had grown of the fast rising number of…

  • Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities

    Multifaceted Identity of Interethnic Young People: Chameleon Identities Ashgate Publishing May 2010 Illustrations: Includes 24 (including 5 tables) line drawings 234 x 156 mm 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-7860-1 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7546-9691-9 BL Reference: 305.8’0083-dc22   Sultana Choudhry, Principal Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health London Metropolitan University, UK…

  • Developing a positive racial identity–challenges for psychotherapists working with black and mixed race adopted adults

    Developing a positive racial identity–challenges for psychotherapists working with black and mixed race adopted adults The Psychotherapist Spring 2010 pages 10-12 Esther Ina-Egbe, Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Trainer In this article, Esther Ina-Egbe argues that psychotherapists need to explore the repetitions and lack of mirroring that may be present in the therapeutic relationship There is a…

  • The Social Experience of Mixed Race [Book Review]

    The Social Experience of Mixed Race [Book Review] Jill Olumide. Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race. London: Pluto Press, 2002. xii + 212 pp., ISBN 978-0-7453-1764-9; ISBN 978-0-7453-1765-6. H-Net Online December 2002 Mohamed Adhikari, Lecturer of Historical Studies University of Cape Town, South Africa The author, a medical sociologist at the…

  • What Does “White” Mean? Interpreting the Choice of “Race” by Mixed Race Young People in Britain

    What Does “White” Mean? Interpreting the Choice of “Race” by Mixed Race Young People in Britain Sociological Perspectives Volume 53, Number 2 (Summer 2010) Pages 287–292 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2010.53.2.287 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana Hashem, Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent Despite the often cited idea that racial…

  • At last! It’s cool to be mixed race (which is handy because I’m African, American, Jewish, Geordie, Irish, Scottish and Hungarian)

    At last! It’s cool to be mixed race (which is handy because I’m African, American, Jewish, Geordie, Irish, Scottish and Hungarian) The Daily Mail (United Kingdom) 2010-04-25 Oona King, Head of Diversity Channel 4 Comment by Steven F. Riley It should be noted that scientists have determined that there is more genetic variation within so-called…

  • G. Reginald Daniel. More Than Black: Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order [Book Review: Harrison]

    G. Reginald Daniel. More Than Black: Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order [Book Review: Harrison] Journal of African American Men Volume 6, Number 4 (June, 2002) pages 96-97 Lisa Harrison California State University, Sacramento Many people in the United States have worked tirelessly to develop a truly egalitarian society that embraces all people, regardless…