Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Day: November 14, 2009

  • Understanding interracial relationships

    Understanding Interracial Relationships Russell House Publishing June 2009 160 pages ISBN:978-1-905541-53-9 Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire It is no longer a novelty to see people of different races and ethnicity holding hands and going about their daily lives. Between 1991 and 2001, the British population grew by 4.0 per cent, while the mixed population…

  • New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children

    New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children London South Bank University News 2005-06-02 Dr Toyin Okitikpi with his challenging new book [Working with Children of Mixed Parentage] Proportionately a higher percentage of mixed parentage children end up in care and in Britain we only statistically classify mixed parentage for children where one parent…

  • Young Single White Mothers with Black Children in Therapy

    Young Single White Mothers with Black Children in Therapy Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1996 Vol. 1, No. 1 pages 19-28 DOI: 10.1177/1359104596011003 N. J. Banks Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Birmingham This article describes the treatment of 16 single, white women aged 17-23 years with black mixed-parentage children within an…

  • White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare

    White Mothers, Mixed-Parentage Children and Child Welfare British Journal of Social Work Volume 29, Number 2 (1999) pages 269-284 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London It is now well documented that the majority of mixed-parentage children who enter the public care system in Britain have a white…

  • Eurocentrism in Social Work Education: From Race to Identity Across the Lifespan as Biracial Alternative

    Eurocentrism in Social Work Education: From Race to Identity Across the Lifespan as Biracial Alternative Journal of Social Work Volume 5, Number 1 (April 2005) pages 101-114 DOI: 10.1177/1468017305051238 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University, East Lansing Summary: Consequent to Eurocentric hegemony, race has been erroneously validated as the standard identity…

  • Working with children of mixed parentage

    Working with children of mixed parentage Russell House Publishing 2005-03-01 160 Pages ISBN:978-1-903855-64-5 Edited by Toyin Okitikpi, Professor University of Bedfordshire Table of Contents Introduction: mixed responses: working with children of mixed parentage. Looking at numbers and projections: making sense of the census, emerging trends. Mulatto, marginal man, half-caste, mixed race: the one-drop rule in…

  • The University of Iowa – Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker

    The University of Iowa – Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker University of Iowa 2009-06-08 Po Li Loo Inspired by her multicultural background, a 2008 grad set out to connect campus groups and redefine diversity. Courtney Parker came to The University of Iowa because of the renowned Writers’ Workshop. But in her time here, she discovered other…

  • An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’

    An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’ History Workshop Journal 2002 Volume 53, Number 1 pages 17-42 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/53.1.17 Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton William G. Allen, the child of a free mulatto mother…

  • The American Prejudice Against Color: An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got Into An Uproar

    A compilation of the explosive reactions to interracial love and marriage in antebellum America.

  • Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery

    Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery Northeastern University Press University Press of New England 1997 160 pages EAN: 978-1-55553-307-6 Louisa May Alcott Edited by Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton The passionate supporter of abolition and women’s rights speaks out on the most controversial issues of…