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  • Ambiguous Belongings: Negotiating Hybridity in Cape Town, 1940s-1990s

    Ambiguous Belongings: Negotiating Hybridity in Cape Town, 1940s-1990s Kronos: Journal of Cape History Number 25, Pre-millennium issue (1998/1999) pages 227-238 Sean Field University of Cape Town You know you are in-between. You, you don’t fit with the Africans. You don’t fit with the coloureds. You live a normal life, but, you know you don’t fit…

  • Protest and Accommodation: Ambiguities in the Racial Politics of the APO, 1909-1923

    Protest and Accommodation: Ambiguities in the Racial Politics of the APO, 1909-1923 Kronos: Journal of Cape History Number 20 (November 1993) pages 92-106 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies University of Cape Town Historical writing on the coloured community of South Africa has tended to accept coloured identity as given and to portray it…

  • Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation

    Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation Intstitute for Research on Women IRW Distinguished Lecture Series 2011-12: (De)Generations: Reimagining Communities Rutgers University Thursday, 2012-04-12 (16:00 EDT reception; 16:30 EDT lecture) César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies Northwestern University Focusing on the cases of Brazil and the U.S., this presentation proposes to articulate the role played by gender representations…

  • ASEM 2535: The Multiracial Individual

    ASEM 2535: The Multiracial Individual The Womens College, University of Denver Fall Quarter, 2011 Arthur C. Jones, Clinical Professor and Chair of Culture and Psychology From the beginning of its history, the United States has always been a place where bi-ethnic and bi-racial romantic alliances have been common, producing children with multi-ethnic and multi-racial roots.…

  • Taste, Manners, and Miscegenation: French Racial Politics in the US

    Taste, Manners, and Miscegenation: French Racial Politics in the US American Literary History Volume 19, Issue 3 (2007) pages 573-602 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajm025 Robert Fanuzzi, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of English St. Johns University, Queens, New York A prequel: A French gourmand, in flight from political turmoil at home, arrives in post-Revolutionary America with a…

  • The Invitation That Never Came: Mary Seacole After the Crimea

    The Invitation That Never Came: Mary Seacole After the Crimea History Today Volume 55, Issue 2 (2005) Helen Rappaport Helen Rappaport on Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and the Post-Crimean War reputation of the woman recently voted ‘greatest black Briton’: Mary Seacole. In the summer of 1856, after the last British troops had made their weary…

  • Mixed Race Britain – How The World Got Mixed Up

    Mixed Race Britain – How The World Got Mixed Up BBC Press Office: Press Packs 2011-09-05 Ruth Williams, Seretse Khama and family This one-off documentary explores the historical and contemporary social, sexual and political attitudes to race mixing. Throughout modern history, interracial sex has been one of society’s great taboos, and across many parts of…

  • Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia

    Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia BBC Press Office: Press Packs 2011-09-05 In this three-part series George Alagiah explores the remarkable and untold story of Britain’s mixed-race community and examines through the decades how mixed race has become one of the country’s fastest growing ethnic groups. Most of all, the films tell a tale of…

  • Mixed Race Britain – Introduction

    Mixed Race Britain – Introduction BBC Press Office: Press Packs 2011-09-05 Mixed Race Britain is put under the spotlight this September on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but a hundred years ago people of mixed race…

  • A Snug Little Flock: The Social Origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70

    A Snug Little Flock: The Social Origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70 Watson & Dwyer Publishing, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1991 290 pages ISBN: 0-920486-48-7 Frits Pannekoek, President Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Questions about the identities of the mixed-blood Indian-European peoples of Canada and the United States have puzzled historians and anthropologists in both countries. Who…