Mixed Race Studies

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  • New Book Explores Georgetown Inside and Out

    New Book Explores Georgetown Inside and Out Georgetown Alumni Online Georgetown University 2010-11-2010 Historian R. Emmett Curran discusses his recently published book, a three-volume history of Georgetown that uncovers little known facts about the university. True or false? 1. In Georgetown’s first decade of existence, nearly 20 percent of its students came from outside the…

  • Mixed Britannia – marrying an alien

    Mixed Britannia – marrying an alien BBC Two 2011-10-02 George Alagiah, Host Nearly 100 years ago, Chinese seaman Stanley Ah Foo arrived in Liverpool to start a new life. He soon fell in love—but laws at the time meant that his English bride, Emily, was only able to marry if she gave up her British…

  • The Rulers and the Ruled: the Singapore Eurasian community under the British and the Japanese

    The Rulers and the Ruled: the Singapore Eurasian Community Under the British and the Japanese National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University 1999 DS610.25.E87 Con John Gregory Conceicao Mixed-race populations provide a challenging and fascinating subject for historical enquiry as they blend multiple cultures and, in the process, give rise to unique social and political…

  • Regulating Race: Interracial Relationships, Community, and Law in Jim Crow Alabama

    Regulating Race: Interracial Relationships, Community, and Law in Jim Crow Alabama University of Georgia 2008 96 pages L. Kathryn Tucker A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS This thesis, based largely on legal cases concerning miscegenation in Alabama,…

  • Brown Bag: Mixed-race tension in early America

    Brown Bag: Mixed-race tension in early America The Daily Campus: The Independent Voice of Southern Methodist University Since 1915 Dallas, Texas 2011-09-21 Logan May The struggle of mixed race families in Southwest America was a daunting issue in the early 19th century. As part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series of the Southwest, SMU Director…

  • Training for assimilation: Cecil cook and the ‘half‐caste’ apprentice regulations

    Training for assimilation: Cecil cook and the ‘half‐caste’ apprentice regulations Melbourne Studies in Education (Currently known as Critical Studies in Education) Volume 29, Issue 1 (1987) pages 128-141 DOI: 10.1080/17508488709556226 Tony Austin Darwin Institute of Technology One of the most significant consequences of the colonisation of Aboriginal Australia was a fast growing population of people…

  • The colour line and the colour scale in the twentieth century

    The colour line and the colour scale in the twentieth century Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Issue 7, 2012 pages 1109-1131 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.605902 Michael Banton, Emeritus Professor of Sociology University of Bristol Some more recent evidence supports Du Bois’ prediction that the twentieth century would prove the century of the colour line. It indicates…

  • Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’: The Difficult Identities of Post-War Black Children of GIs

    For many of the now-adult children of white German women and African-American GIs, adopted by families in the United States after World War II, the search for the truth has been difficult. Online communities are helping.

  • The Cosmic Race in Texas: Racial Fusion, White Supremacy, and Civil Rights Politics

    The Cosmic Race in Texas: Racial Fusion, White Supremacy, and Civil Rights Politics The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 2 (September 2011) pages 404-419 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar338 Benjamin H. Johnson, Associate Professor of Global Studies and History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee In the early twentieth century, a number of Latin American intellectuals embraced racial fusion…

  • Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries

    Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries Chapter in: Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment (2009) Springer Part I pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9283-1_4 Décio de Alencar Guzmán The author analyses the process of mixing (mestiçagem) in the Rio Negro region during the…