Category: Europe

  • Regulating Mixed Marriages through Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 662, Number 1, November 2015 pages 170-187 DOI: 10.1177/0002716215595390 Betty de Hart, Professor of Law Radboud University, The Netherlands Mixed marriages have always had an ambiguous and often problematic relationship with the law. On…

  • Ten black composers whose works deserve to be heard more often The Guardian 2015-06-02 John Lewis English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Photograph: Unknown/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS The newly formed Chineke orchestra aims to include a work by a composer of ethnicity in each of its concert programmes. John Lewis looks at some of the neglected writers whose…

  • France’s Approach to Fighting Racism: Pretty Words and Magical Thinking The Huffington Post 2015-05-07 Crystal Fleming, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stony Brook University, The State University of New York I first came to France twelve years ago during my junior year abroad. I was the first person in my family to get a passport and…

  • The Fabulous World of Harumi Klossowska de Rola The New York Times Magazine 2015-09-22 Hilary Moss “Benoît, my partner, took this photo in 2013 in front of the Grand Chalet, which was a hotel until my father bought it. It is still loaded with thousands of books and even old skis from English clients. My…

  • Dr. Wanda Wyporska on Witchcraft Persecution WandaWyporskaWitchcraft 2014-09-07 Dr. Wanda Wyporska A show reel of Dr Wanda Wyporska talking about witchcraft for the BBC BAME expert days – 2014

  • Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part One explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part Two outlines ways in…

  • Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century University of Pennsylvania Press 2014 280 pages 6 x 9 12 illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4609-4 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0970-9 Iris Idelson-Shein, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein,…

  • Racist Hysteria to Pragmatic Rapprochement? The German Debate about Rhenish ‘Occupation Children’, 1920–30 Contemporary European History Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2013 pages 155-180 DOI: 10.1017/S0960777313000039 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington This essay revisits 1920s German debates over the illegitimate children of the Rhineland occupation to examine hitherto neglected fluctuations in…

  • Three Very Rare Generations The New York Times 1992-12-13 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University Soul To Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992. By Yelena Khanga with Susan Jacoby. Illustrated. 318 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $22.95. AMONG its other consequences, the demise of the Soviet Union has…

  • Call for Papers: “Mixed Race in Scandinavia” The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies e-ISSN: 2325-4521 September 2015 G. Reginald Daniel, Editor in Chief and Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara JCMRS encourages established and emerging scholars to submit articles in response to the annual call of papers. The journal is currently inviting…