Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children

    New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children London South Bank University News 2005-06-02 Dr Toyin Okitikpi with his challenging new book [Working with Children of Mixed Parentage] Proportionately a higher percentage of mixed parentage children end up in care and in Britain we only statistically classify mixed parentage for children where one parent…

  • White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare

    White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare British Journal of Social Work Volume 29, Number 2 (1999) pages 269-284 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London It is now well documented that the majority of mixed-parentage children who enter the public care system in Britain have a white…

  • Working with children of mixed parentage

    Working with children of mixed parentage Russell House Publishing 2005-03-01 160 Pages ISBN:978-1-903855-64-5 Edited by Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire Table of Contents Introduction: mixed responses: working with children of mixed parentage. Looking at numbers and projections: making sense of the census, emerging trends. Mulatto, marginal man, half-caste, mixed race: the one-drop rule in…

  • Walking A Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe

    Walking A Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured People of Zimbabwe Africa World Press May 2004 300 pages SKU: 1592212648 ISBN: 1592212648 James Muzondidya, Senior Research Specialist of Democracy and Governance Human Sciences Research Council This book examines the history of the Coloured or “mixed race” community of Zimbabwe, a group that has…

  • The Racial Contract

    “The Racial Contract” puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged “contract” has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence “whites” and…

  • A Feminist Critique of Research on Interracial Family Identity: Implications for Family Health

    A Feminist Critique of Research on Interracial Family Identity: Implications for Family Health Journal of Family Nursing 2004 Vol. 10, No. 3 pp. 302-322 DOI: 10.1177/1074840704267189 Marcia M. Byrd, Assistant Professor of Nursing College of St. Catherine Ann W. Garwick, Associate Dean for Research, Professor and Director of Center for Child and Family Health Promotion…

  • Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America

    Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 216 pp., 3 b&w illus. ISBN: 978-0-292-70596-8 Marilyn Grace Miller, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Tulane University, New Orleans Latin America is characterized by a uniquely rich history of cultural and…

  • Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues

    Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues The Scarecrow Press, Inc. March 2005 264 pages Paper ISBN: 0-8108-5199-7; ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5199-3 Edited by Karen Downing, Foundation and Grants Librarian Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan Darlene Nichols, Psychology Librarian and Coordinator of Instruction Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan Kelly…

  • Politicking the personal: examining academic literature and British National Party beliefs and wishes about intimate interracial relationships and mixed heritage

    Politicking the personal: examining academic literature and British National Party beliefs and wishes about intimate interracial relationships and mixed heritage Information & Communications Technology Law Volume 18, Issue 2 June 2009 pages 83 – 98 DOI: 10.1080/13600830902814992 Mike Sutton School of Social Sciences Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK Barbara Perry Faculty of Criminology Justice and…

  • Mixed Race Marriages

    Mixed Race Marriages The Milken Institute Review Second Quarter 2009 William “Bill” H. Frey, Senior Fellow in Demography/Senior Fellow in Metropolitan Policy Milken Institute Brookings Institution in Washington While Barack Obama’s election was a signal event for many reasons, the fact that Americans chose someone of mixed race isn’t quite as startling as it first…