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  • The Awareness of Walter White

    The Awareness of Walter White The Land Press Okiecentric 2011-05-05 Adrian Margaret Brune I grew up in Tulsa, but was raised knowing next to nothing about the Race Riot of 1921. Though I considered myself educated when I left for Northwestern University at the age of 18 in 1994, I had never taken a black…

  • Medieval black Briton found

    Medieval black Briton found The Times of London 2010-05-02 Gillian Passmore A SKELETON uncovered in the ruins of a friary is the earliest physical evidence of a black person living in Britain in medieval times.   The remains of a man, found in the friary in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was destroyed by Henry VIII, have…

  • 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…

  • British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar Investigation

    British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar Investigation New Formations Number 60 (2007) pages 66-78 Lucy Bland, Professor of Social and Cultural History Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom In 1937 a polemic entitled Half-Caste was published, heralding ‘the richness of hybrid potentiality’. Written by a self-defined Eurasian called Cedric Dover its opening…

  • ‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa

    ‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa Gender & History Volume 21, Issue 3 (November 2009) pages 628–646 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01567.x Carina E. Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Based on archival research in Ghana and Britain, this article…

  • White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War

    White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War Gender & History Volume 17, Issue 1 (April 2005) pages 29–61 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2005.00371.x Lucy Bland, Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology London Metropolitan University This article examines miscegenation fears in Britain in the period after World War I, noting three dominant…

  • ‘Mixed Britannia’ – research by LSBU’s Dr Caballero informs BBC series

    ‘Mixed Britannia’ – research by LSBU’s Dr Caballero informs BBC series London South Bank University 2011-10-05 Research conducted by Dr Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow in London South Bank University’s Families and Social Capital Research Group, has formed the foundations of a BBC2 series starting on Thursday 6 October. Dr Caballero was an academic consultant…

  • The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics

    The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics MIT Press January 2009 368 pages 7 x 9, 35 illus. Paper ISBN-10: 0-262-58275-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-262-58275-9 Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies (and Dean of Harvard College)…

  • Mixed race Britain: charting the social history

    Mixed race Britain: charting the social history The Guardian 2011-10-04 Laura Smith While mixed race is one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the UK, there is nothing new in people from different cultures getting together Olive was just 15 when she met the man who was to become her husband. It was 1930s Cardiff…

  • ‘Breed out the Colour’ or the Importance of Being White

    ‘Breed out the Colour’ or the Importance of Being White Australian Historical Studies Volume 33, Issue 120 (2002) pages 286-302 DOI: 10.1080/10314610208596220 Russell McGregor, Associate Professor of History James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia This article examines inter-war proposals to ‘breed out the colour’ of Aborigines of mixed descent. Positioning these proposals in the context…