Mixed Race Studies

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  • There are Italians with black skin

    There are Italians with black skin Africa News 2010-05-28 Stephen Ogongo Interview with Sabrina Jacobucci, President of Association of Afro-Italian Children To be black and Italian at the same time is a new reality the Italian society is still struggling to accept.  Adoption and increase in the number of mixed marriages between Italians and Africans…

  • Mixed Britannia: Part 3 of 3 (1965-2011)

    Mixed Britannia: Part 3 of 3 (1965-2011) BBC Two 2011-10-20 George Alagiah, Host Below is the last episode as four 15-minute videos.

  • Clench: What are You Fighting For?

    Clench: What are You Fighting For? Commissioned By: Runnymede Trust-UK’s Leading Race Equality Think Tank 2011 Written and directed by Riffat Ahmed Produced by Shane Davey, Courtney Edwards, Riffat Ahmed and Fabien Soazandry of Davey Inc Running Time: 00:15:39 Starring: Hussina Raja as Ash With: Kevin Morris, Jeff Caffrey, Afreen Mhar, Allan Hopwood, and Danny Randall…

  • Hybridity

    Hybridity International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2009) Pages 258-263 ISBN: 978-0-08-044910-4 Article DOI: 10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00959-7 Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Reader of Geography Durham University This article traces the term ‘hybridity’ to the eighteenth century in its origins as a defining principle of racial difference between ‘black’ and ‘white’ categories of man. Here, the focus is on the ways…

  • Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition

    Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition Cengage Learning 2012 480 pages ISBN-10: 1111519536; ISBN-13: 9781111519537 Edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Criminology University of Delaware Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology University of Delaware This engaging reader is organized in four…

  • PLAIN PEOPLE: Is There Anywhere?…

    PLAIN PEOPLE: Is There Anywhere?… Time Magazine 1946-03-11 Prewar Britain’s Negro problem was as minuscule as prewar Britain’s Negro population. But the 70,000 U.S. Negro troops who served in Britain during the war left behind hundreds of illegitimate mulatto babies. Last fortnight London’s League of Colored Peoples reported that already 544 children of U.S. Negro…

  • But Don’t Call Me White: Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics

    But Don’t Call Me White: Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics Sense Publishers September 2011 258 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-94-6091-692-2 Paperback ISBN 978-94-6091-691-5 Silvia Cristina Bettez, Assistant Professor of Cultural Foundations School of Education University of North Carolina, Greensboro Highlighting the words and experiences of 16 mixed race women (who have…

  • Brazil’s unfinished battle for racial democracy

    Brazil’s unfinished battle for racial democracy The Economist 2000-04-20 JOSILENE SALES’S career is typical of Brazil’s emerging middle class. She spent seven years working in a petrochemical plant, while studying for a degree at night classes. Having moved to a better paid job in marketing, she saved enough to start her own telemarketing firm in…

  • The Fletcher Report 1930: A Historical Case Study of Contested Black Mixed Heritage Britishness

    This article examines a controversial report that focused negatively on mixed heritage children born and raised in the city of Liverpool. The official title was: “Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports.”  The social researcher was Muriel E. Fletcher, who had been trained in the Liverpool School of Social…

  • Child Poverty at a Racial Cross Roads: Assessing Child Poverty for Children in Mono- and Multiracial Families

    Child Poverty at a Racial Cross Roads: Assessing Child Poverty for Children in Mono- and Multiracial Families Colloquium Series University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Hamilton Hall 271 2011-09-21, 12:00-13:00 EDT (Local Time) Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Jenifer L. Bratter (PhD 2001, University of Texas at Austin) is an Associate…