Mixed Race Studies

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Day: March 16, 2010

  • From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa

    From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa African Historical Review Volume 40, Issue 1 (June 2008) pages 77 – 100 DOI: 10.1080/17532520802249472 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of History University of Cape Town, South Africa This article traces changing interpretations of the nature of Coloured identity and…

  • A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy

    A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 27, Issue 6 November 2004 pages 878 – 907 DOI: 10.1080/0141987042000268512 France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Opposition to transracial adoption on both sides of the Atlantic, has been based, in part, on the…

  • Brave new world: The complicated side-effects of Britain’s mixed-race households

    Brave new world: The complicated side-effects of Britain’s mixed-race households The Independent (UK) 2009-08-22 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Bev is beautiful, with silky black skin and thick hair she ties in a bunch at the top, spurting like a fountain. At 15, her face reminds me of the young and feisty Winnie Mandela. Dressed in denim, she…

  • Racial Slur Development Not Keeping Pace With Mixed-Race Births, Nation’s Bigots Report

    Racial Slur Development Not Keeping Pace With Mixed-Race Births, Nation’s Bigots Report The Onion 2010-03-13 WASHINGTON—A coalition of the nation’s most fervent bigots convened in Washington Monday to address growing concerns that the production of hateful new racial slurs has failed to keep pace with the rise in mixed-race births. According to representatives from the…

  • White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

    White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 University of North Carolina Press 1968-09-25 (Republished: September 1995) 671 pages 8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8078-4550-9 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) Winner of the 1968 Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American…