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  • How Do Children of Mixed Partnerships Fare in the United Kingdom? Understanding the Implications for Children of Parental Ethnic Homogamy and Heterogamy

    How Do Children of Mixed Partnerships Fare in the United Kingdom? Understanding the Implications for Children of Parental Ethnic Homogamy and Heterogamy The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 643, Number 1, September 2012 pages 239-266 DOI: 10.1177/0002716212444853 Lucinda Platt, Professor of Sociology Institute of Education, University of London Many…

  • Introducing the Mix-d: Professionals’ Pack

    Introducing the Mix-d: Professionals’ Pack Mix-d: 2012-07-13 Everything you need to work confidently with the mixed-race subject. The Mix-d: Professionals’ Pack is an essential guide for teachers, facilitators, mentors and professional carers. The pack will equip you, your staff and organisation with the resources and knowledge to deal confidently with all aspects of the mixed-race topic……

  • The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia

    The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia Melbourne University Publishing March 2002 364 pages 235 x 154 mm, 25 b/w illustrations & 4 maps Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-522-84989-9 Warwick Anderson, Research Professor of History University of Sydney Winner of the Australian Historical Association W.K. Hancock Prize 2004 In this lucid and original…

  • American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South

    American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South Liverpool University Press May 2012 256 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781846317538 Edited by: Celia Britton, Professor of French and Francophone Studies University College London Martin Munro, Professor of French and Francophone Studies Florida State University The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are…

  • The Arab and the Brit: The Last of the Welcome Immigrants

    Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father’s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century.

  • Black GIs, English women, and ‘brown babies’ (1944-1950)

    Black GIs, English women, and ‘brown babies’ (1944-1950) Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: 2012-07-10 During the period 1942-45 around one million US servicemen were based in England as part of the preparations for the invasion of Europe in June 1944 and around 130,000 (13%) of these were Black (African American) GIs. This caused endless worry for…

  • British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act (1914)

    British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act (1914) Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: 2012-07-10 With the increase of the minority ethnic population in Britain from the turn of the century, popular concerns about interracial relationships grew. The 1914 British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act meant that not only did ‘aliens’ – that is, foreign-born residents,…

  • Commentary: Morgan Freeman’s Misguided “Mixed-Race President” Quote

    Commentary: Morgan Freeman’s Misguided “Mixed-Race President” Quote Black Entertainment Television 2012-07-09 Cord Jefferson The legendary Black actor made a silly mistake when he said Obama isn’t a truly Black president, because fewer and fewer truly Black Americans exist. Morgan Freeman is one of the most sought after actors in Hollywood, and for good reason: He’s…

  • Estimating Genetic Ancestry Proportions from Faces

    Estimating Genetic Ancestry Proportions from Faces PLoS ONE Volume 4, Number 2, e4460 (February 2009) 8 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004460 Yann C. Klimentidis Department of Biostatistics University of Alabama, Birmingham Mark D. Shriver, Associate Professor of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Ethnicity can be a means by which people identify themselves and others. This type of identification…

  • Life in the South

    The report provides a bleak assessment of life in post-war South Carolina, particularly for union men and blacks who “are at the mercy of a set of wretches, as unprincipled as they are cruel.”