Category: Articles

  • The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker The Virginian-Pilot 2004-08-18 Warren Fiske Lacy Branham Hearl closes her eyes and travels eight decades back to what began as a sweet childhood. There was family everywhere: her parents, five siblings, nine sets of adoring aunts and uncles and more cousins than she could count. They all lived…

  • Health Disparities in the Context of Mixed Race: Challenging the Ideology of Race Advances in Nursing Science Volume 28 Number 3 (July/September 2005) Pages 203-211 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma Debates are occurring about the relative contribution of genetic versus social factors to racial health disparities. An…

  • White Supremacists from 1920s Still Thwarting Virginia Tribes Indian Country Today Media Network 2011-04-26 Tanya Lee Congress is once again considering legislation that would grant federal recognition to six of Virginia’s 11 state-recognized American Indian tribes—the Chickahominy, Chickahominy Eastern Division, Nansemond, Rappahannock and Upper Mattaponi tribes and the Monacan Indian Nation. Chief Gene Adkins of…

  • There are Italians with black skin Africa News 2010-05-28 Stephen Ogongo Interview with Sabrina Jacobucci, President of Association of Afro-Italian Children To be black and Italian at the same time is a new reality the Italian society is still struggling to accept.  Adoption and increase in the number of mixed marriages between Italians and Africans…

  • Wuthering Heights realises Brontë’s vision with its dark-skinned Heathcliff The Guardian Film Blog 2011-10-21 Tola Onanuga, Freelance Subeditor and Writer At last, Andrea Arnold has bucked the trend of casting white actors in the role of Emily Brontë’s ‘gypsy’ foundling hero Andrea Arnold’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, will see,…

  • Mixed Britannia [Review] Caliban in London: a postcolonial subject in an imperial capital 2011-10-10 Anindya Raychaudhuri, Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of English Language and Literature University College London Caliban in London has previously reviewed part of the BBC’s new Mixed Race season. Thursday evening saw the screening of the first of a 3 part documentary called…

  • According to official census results, the Puerto Rican population became significantly whiter in the first half of the twentieth century. Social scientists have long speculated about the source of this trend, but until now, available data did not permit competing hypotheses of Puerto Rico’s whitening to be evaluated empirically. This article revisits the question of…

  • Interview with Zara Paul: A Future Leader London School of Economics 2011-10-26 Zara Paul recently graduated from LSE. She has been listed among the top 100 black graduates of the UK in the Future Leaders magazine 2011-12. In this interview she talks about her time at LSE, her passion for music, what being mixed race…

  • New Categories Listings for MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-10-02 Steven F. Riley Over the next few days, I will be removing three frequently used tags (indexed items) and converting them into categories (which are listed on the right-hand side). Thanks to Dr. G. Reginald Daniel for letting me flush out my ideas with him. Slavery Over three centuries of human…

  • Globalizing a Race to Publish an Encyclopedia American Nineteenth Century History Volume 11, Issue 1 (2010) pages 79-94 DOI: 10.1080/14664651003616966 Michael Benjamin, Independent Scholar African American Print Culture Cleveland, Ohio, USA In 1912, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray published a prospectus for his “Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race throughout the World.” He promised…