Category: Europe

  • ‘The abuse we suffered due to our skin colour is being airbrushed from Irish history’ TheJournal.ie Dublin, Ireland 2014-10-22 Nicky Ryan, Staff Reporter Members of Mixed Race Irish before the committee today. Source: Oireachtas.ie Mixed Race Irish is asking for the Government to recognise the abuse they suffered in State-run institutions. IN A EMOTIONAL appearance…

  • Mixed Race Irish group seek redress amid claims of racist abuse in industrial schools The Irish Examiner Dublin, Ireland 2014-10-22 Noel Baker, Senior Reporter Mixed Race Irish group seek redress amid claims of racist abuse in industrial schools Mixed-race Irish who spent time in industrial schools will today claim they faced physical, emotional, and sexual…

  • Black and Belgian: Navigating Multiracial Identities in Ghent, Belguim Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2014-10-01 Walter Thompson-Hernandez Introduction What does it mean to be Black and multiracial in Belgium? How does sub-Saharan African culture and experiences impact the lives of multiracial people or Afropeans in Belgium? How influential is the U.S. Black experience in the…

  • Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe Routledge 2014-04-02 264 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-89743-3 Edited by: Michael McEachrane Foreword by: Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature King’s College, London Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that…

  • Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages University Press of Florida 2014-09-02 192 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-6007-1 Lynn T. Ramey, Associate Professor of French Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in the medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling…

  • The Octoroon: A Tragic Mulatto Enslaved by 1 Drop The Root 2014-09-09 Image of the Week: A sculpture addresses the ramifications for those who were mixed-race. John Bell, The Octoroon, 1868. Marble, 159.6 cm high. Town Hall, Blackburn, U.K. This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with…

  • Study reveals the mysterious ancestors of modern Europeans The Washington Post 2014-09-18 Gail Sullivan, Reporter Some had dark skin and blue eyes. Some had light skin and brown eyes. And no one is sure what some others looked like. But, according to a new study of ancient human genomes, three very different populations got together…

  • A mixed-race German confronts white supremacists face-to-face, including the Klan Public Radio International 2014-09-15 Leo Hornak, Producer Susie Blair, Producer Most people would probably run for shelter if confronted with death threats. But Mo Asumang had a different impulse: “I don’t want to hide — it’s not my nature.” Asumang — who is half-German and…

  • Footprints of my other 2012 52 minutes Claude Haffner Born to a mixed race couple in the DRC, then Zaire, in the 1970s, Claude Haffner is part Congolese, part French. From her family home in France, Claude Haffner embarks on a journey in search of her African identity. She is of mixed race, born in…

  • The biopolitics of mixing: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies [England Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1923-1926 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.925129 Sara England, Associate Professor of Anthropology Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California The biopolitics of mixing: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies, by Jinthana…