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  • 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…

  • Obama and Race in America

    Obama and Race in America The Huffington Post 2010-08-06 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In his first major comment on race and race relations in our nation since his “A More Perfect Union Speech” on March 18, 2008, President Barack Obama called for frank discussion about race last week. In both a speech…

  • Opinion: Are you mixed up?

    Opinion: Are you mixed up? Malayasian Insider 2010-07-08 Praba Ganesan JULY 8 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is the poster child for Malaysians with mixed parentage. Not that he epitomises multiculturalism, the misguided doctor is far from that. He does however mirror the difficulties and challenges anyone of that situation experiences in a Malaysia averse…

  • A Biracial Identity or a New Race? The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity

    A Biracial Identity or a New Race? The Historical Limitations and Political Implications of a Biracial Identity Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society Volume 3, Number 4 (Fall 2001) pages 83-112 Minkah Makalani, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Over the past fifteen years in the…

  • Endogenous Race in Brazil: Affirmative Action and the Construction of Racial Identity among Young Adults

    Endogenous Race in Brazil: Affirmative Action and the Construction of Racial Identity among Young Adults Working Paper 2010-01-10 Andrew M. Francis, Professor of Economics Emory University Maria Tannuri-Pianto, Professor of Economics University of Brasilia Brazil is not only characterized by racial diversity but also by socioeconomic inequality. This complexity, plus the recent adoption of racial…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Hybridity in the Third Space: Rethinking Bi-cultural Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand Paper Presented to Te Oru Rangahau Maori Research and Development Conference 1998-07-07 through 1998-07-09 Massey University 7 pages Paul Meredith (Ngati Kaputuhi/Pakeha), Research Fellow Te Matahauariki Institute University of Waikato, New Zealand This brief paper joins a growing call for a reconceptualisation of bicultural…

  • The more things change, the more they stay the same

    The more things change, the more they stay the same Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Stanford University Last week, we inaugurated our first African American president, and coincidentally our first mixed race president, and our…

  • Why Obama is Black Again

    Why Obama is Black Again Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Barack Obama’s inauguration was for so many an awe-inspiring, historic and transnational event: It was full of grand pageantry and a good-humored…