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  • Human Genetic Diversity and the Nonexistence of Biological Races

    Human Genetic Diversity and the Nonexistence of Biological Races Human Biology Volume 75, Number 4, August 2003 pages 449-471 Rich Kittles, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Illinois, Chicago Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Sewall Wright’s population structure statistic, FST, measured among samples of world…

  • The Fletcher Report 1930: A Historical Case Study of Contested Black Mixed Heritage Britishness

    This article examines a controversial report that focused negatively on mixed heritage children born and raised in the city of Liverpool. The official title was: “Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports.”  The social researcher was Muriel E. Fletcher, who had been trained in the Liverpool School of Social…

  • British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar Investigation

    British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar Investigation New Formations Number 60 (2007) pages 66-78 Lucy Bland, Professor of Social and Cultural History Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom In 1937 a polemic entitled Half-Caste was published, heralding ‘the richness of hybrid potentiality’. Written by a self-defined Eurasian called Cedric Dover its opening…

  • ‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa

    ‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa Gender & History Volume 21, Issue 3 (November 2009) pages 628–646 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01567.x Carina E. Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Based on archival research in Ghana and Britain, this article…

  • White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War

    White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War Gender & History Volume 17, Issue 1 (April 2005) pages 29–61 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2005.00371.x Lucy Bland, Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology London Metropolitan University This article examines miscegenation fears in Britain in the period after World War I, noting three dominant…

  • The Genetic Structure of Admixed Populations

    The Genetic Structure of Admixed Populations Genetics February 1, 1991 Volume 127, Number 2 pages 417–428 Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque A method for simultaneously estimating the admixture proportions of a hybrid population and Wright’s fixation index, FST, for that hybrid is presented. It is shown that the variance…

  • ‘Mixed Britannia’ – research by LSBU’s Dr Caballero informs BBC series

    ‘Mixed Britannia’ – research by LSBU’s Dr Caballero informs BBC series London South Bank University 2011-10-05 Research conducted by Dr Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow in London South Bank University’s Families and Social Capital Research Group, has formed the foundations of a BBC2 series starting on Thursday 6 October. Dr Caballero was an academic consultant…

  • Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review

    Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review The Telegraph 2011-10-06 Josephine Moulds Josephine Moulds reviews the first episode of BBC Two’s documentary Mixed Britannia, presented by George Alagiah. The first part of an ambitious documentary series, Mixed Britannia, ran last night, continuing BBC Two’s season about mixed-race life in the UK. Over the course of three programmes,…

  • Beware this new mixed-race love-in

    Beware this new mixed-race love-in The Guardian 2011-10-04 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor I’m glad that attitudes to mixed-race people have changed. But does it all mask a subtler kind of racism? Why does everyone want to be like me? According to scientific research (yes, really) I’m not only more beautiful than, but also biologically…

  • Joe Christmas and the Chamber of Secrets – The Black/ White Dilemma in William Faulkner’s Light in August

    Joe Christmas and the Chamber of Secrets – The Black/ White Dilemma in William Faulkner’s Light in August Africa Resource 2010-04-04 21 paragraphs Isabel Adonis, Writer and Artist I read William Faulkner’s Light in August in my early teens and I scarcely understood it.  But I understood something and many years later a woman at…