Mixed Race Studies

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  • History’s most sordid cover-up

    History’s most sordid cover-up New African February 2004 Stella Orakwue The history of the former European colonies’ mixed-race populations is one of the world’s biggest hidden scandals. How did these populations come about? We did not miraculously or biblically produce mixed-race babies from thin air. Most of the black women were raped… …Her children come…

  • A Silenced History from Belgian Congo: A Mixed Race History

    A Silenced History from Belgian Congo: A Mixed Race History Afro-Europe International Blog 2010-06-15 Sibo Kano The Bastards in Our Colony: Hidden Stories of Belgian Metis You haven’t heard much from me lately. I was writing a book and it’s finally finished and published. The book I wrote together with Kathleen Ghequière traces back a…

  • Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

    Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective University Press of America April 2010 516 pages Paper ISBN: 0-7618-5064-3 / 978-0-7618-5064-9 Electronic ISBN: 0-7618-5092-9 / 978-0-7618-5092-2 Edited by Julius O. Adekunle, Professor of History Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey Hettie V. Williams, Lecturer, African American History Department of History and Anthropology…

  • Between Race; Beyond Race: The Experience of Self-Identification of Indian-White Biracial Young Adults and the factors Affecting their Choices of Identity

    Between Race; Beyond Race: The Experience of Self-Identification of Indian-White Biracial Young Adults and the factors Affecting their Choices of Identity PINS (Psychology in Society) Issue 34 (2006) pages 1-16 Dennis Francis, Dean of Education University of The Free State, South Africa This study, based on my doctoral research, is an exploration of how nine…

  • Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy

    Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy European Journal of Human Genetics Volume 15 (2007) pages 288–293 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201771 Turi E. King University of Leicester Emma J. Parkin University of Leicester Geoff Swinfield Geoff Swinfield Genealogical Services, Mottingham, London Fulvio Cruciani Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’…

  • “Race” and the Construction of Human Identity

    Race as a mechanism of social stratification and as a form of human identity is a recent concept in human history. Historical records show that neither the idea nor ideologies associated with race existed before the seventeenth century.

  • Race, Identity, and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age (Lecture by Duana Fullwiley)

    Race, Identity, and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age (Lecture by Duana Fullwiley) Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus Tuesday, 2010-10-05, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z) Duana Fullwiley, Assistant Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University A series of public programs…

  • The Language of Ham and the Language of Cain: “Dialect” and Linguistic Hybridity in the Work of Adam Small

    The Language of Ham and the Language of Cain: “Dialect” and Linguistic Hybridity in the Work of Adam Small The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 45, Number 3 (September 2010) pages 389-408 DOI: 10.1177/0021989410377550 Nicole Devarenne, Lecturer in English University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom The “coloured” South African writer Adam Small has made an…

  • Beyond borders: Multiracial identities in the shadow of blackness

    Beyond borders: Multiracial identities in the shadow of blackness 53rd Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society Francis Marion Hotel Charleston South Carolina 2009-09-24 Fileve Palmer Indiana University Within the United States and South Africa the idea of multiracial identity has often been subverted beneath a collective, more powerful Black political identity. The…

  • Equivocal subjects: The representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film

    Equivocal subjects: The representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film University of California, Irvine 2007 226 pages AAT 3296258 ISBN: 9780549410775 Shelleen Maisha Greene, Assistant Professor of Conceptual Studies University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee My dissertation seeks to establish a critical framework for the analysis of mixed-race subjects in Italian film. Within the Italian context, mixed-race…