Mixed Race Studies

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Month: December 2009

  • Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women

    Winnefred and Agnes: The Story of Two Women Independent Publishing Group September 2002 288 pages, Cloth, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 6 B/W Photos, 1 Chart, 1 Map ISBN: 9780795701139 (0795701136) Agnes Lottering This is a rare, possibly the first, first-person account of being part of the group of mixed-race families who came into existence…

  • “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism”

    “The New Kubla Khan: Mixed Race Multi-Nationalism” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association 2009-05-24 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English, Professor, Director of African & African American Studies Stanford University This paper examines how, and to what ends, people of the “mixed race experience” are being…

  • Half-Caste and Other Poems

    ‘Half-Caste’, the title poem of this collection, is one of the set poems for GCSE English for AQA A, the largest spec with 375,000 candidates. But its influence and presence extends well beyond the ‘AQA’ schools, making John Agard one of the most popular, well-known and respected poet-performers on the schools circuit.

  • Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race

    Between Camps: Nations, Cultures and the Allure of Race (Also published in the United States by Harvard University Press as Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line) Routledge 2004-08-26 424 pages Trim Size: 234X156 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-34365-7 Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory The London School of Economics and Political Science…

  • Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste?

    Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste? Independent Publishing Group April 2010 316 pages, Trade Paper, 5.75 x 8.25 35 B/W Photos ISBN: 9781921248030 (1921248033) Lorraine McGee-Sippel Compelling and honest, this memoir recounts the diffuse effects of a governmental policy that required the author’s adoptive parents to be informed of her Afro-American ancestry. Chronicling her personal search…

  • Lara

    Lara is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo’s own childhood and family history.

  • Loving: The Significance of Race

    The Loving opinion treated race as a monolithic and meaningful category, even though the realities of the case itself subverted this account. The litigation arose in Caroline County, Virginia, a place called the “passing capital of America” because so many light-skinned blacks were mistaken for whites. In addition, the Jeters made clear that “Richard [wasn’t]…

  • The Identity Development of Biracial Children and Society’s Impact Thereon

    The Identity Development of Biracial Children and Society’s Impact Thereon Workshop by Francis Wardle 1989-03-04 18 pages Francis Wardle This document is taken from a workshop presentation focusing on the identity development of biracial children. The confusion of the academic community concerning this topic is emphasized. Three main aspects are examined: (1) “What is the…

  • Barack Obama’s Improbable Election and the Question of Race and Racism in Contemporary America

    Barack Obama’s Improbable Election and the Question of Race and Racism in Contemporary America Journal of Black Studies January 2010 Volume 40, No. 3 Guest Editor Pamela D. Reed, Assistant Professor of English Composition and Africana Literature Virginia State University The Journal of Black Studies has now issued two special issues on President Barack Hussein…

  • Lessons, Then and Now, From Rhinelander v. Rhinelander

    …Finally, Rhinelander teaches us about the limited spaces that are available in society for recognizing families that are multiracial. Like many multiracial families, Alice’s family, the Joneses, existed within an American landscape that had no recognized place for them and their lives. Just like the one-drop rule was applied to individuals, it was applied to…