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  • Census Says There Are More Biracial People, But That Depends On Your Definition of Mixed

    Census Says There Are More Biracial People, But That Depends On Your Definition of Mixed The Black Snob 2011-04-07 Danielle C. Belton Since 2000, the population of biracial and multiracial people has boomed by 50 percent according to 2010 Census data. The New York Times recently ran a story saying that because of changes in…

  • On being mixed-race

    On being mixed-race New Statesman 2011-04-07 Samira Shackle I grew up thinking of myself as equally English and Pakistani, writes Samira Shackle. Was I wrong? When I meet people for the first time, it’s not unusual for them to ask, “Where are you from?” If I reply, “London,” they say, “Oh, no, where are you…

  • “A Half Caste” and Other Writings

    “A Half Caste” and Other Writings University of Illinois Press 2003 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07094-5 Onoto Watanna (1875-1954) Edited by: Linda Trinh Moser, Professor of English Missouri State University Elizabeth Rooney Previously uncollected short stories and essays by the first fiction writer of Chinese ancestry to be published in the…

  • Anthropological Studies of Children

    Anthropological Studies of Children Eugenics Review Volume 18, Number 4 (January 1927) pages 294-301 Rachel M. Fleming Some ten years ago, with the guidance and help of Professor Fleure, of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, I began to study race type in women, and from the study of divergent-race characteristics…

  • A study of the intelligence of Anglo-Chinese children

    A study of the intelligence of Anglo-Chinese children Eugenics Review Volume 30, Number 2 (July 1938) pages 109-119 P. C. Hu Department of Psychology University College, London I. OBJECT OF THE INQUIRY The present investigation was carried out with the object of determining the general intellectual level of Anglo-Chinese children, and of dscovering what differences,…

  • The Liverpool-Born Black Community

    The history of The Liverpool Black Community seems to have been strangely ignored in the dialogue on asylum seekers and immigration by government pundits.

  • The Changing Face of Liverpool 8

    The Changing Face of Liverpool 8 Diverse Magazine 2009 Dave Clay Four hundred years of shackles and chains, four hundred years of racist names and institutionalised racist games, Slavepool’s history has got to change “Slavepool” by Eugene Lange AKA Muhammad Khalil My mate, the late and inspirational, John Hill once described Liverpool-born Black people as…

  • PRico sees increase in blacks, American Indians

    PRico sees increase in blacks, American Indians The Seattle Times 2011-03-31 Danica Coto Associated Press The number of Puerto Ricans identifying themselves solely as black or American Indian jumped about 50 percent in the last decade, according to new census figures that have surprised experts and islanders alike. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The number of Puerto…

  • Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery

    Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Alabama Law Review Volume 59 (2008) pages 1501-1555 Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law This Article examines in detail the local and trial records of a nineteenth-century Texas case to tell the story…

  • Suing for Freedom: Interracial Sex, Slave Law, and Racial Identity in the Post-Revolutionary and Antebellum South

    Suing for Freedom: Interracial Sex, Slave Law, and Racial Identity in the Post-Revolutionary and Antebellum South North Carolina Law Review Volume 82, Issue 2 (January 2004) pages 535- Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law Introduction A. Two Stories   In 1823 in Sumner County, Tennessee, Phebe, a “colored woman”…