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Month: March 2011

  • The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003

    The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003 Amsterdam University Press November 2010 282 pages Paperback ISBN: 978 90 8964 235 6 Elaine Bauer, Fellow at the Young Foundation; Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London In the last 50 years, the United…

  • Lone Mothers of Children from Mixed Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds: A Case Study

    Lone Mothers of Children from Mixed Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds: A Case Study Single Parent Action Network (SPAN) January 2010 41 pages Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow London South Bank University This report draws on case study findings with 10 lone mothers of mixed racial and ethnic children to look at their everyday experiences of…

  • Love in black and white

    Love in black and white Electronic Precinct University of Liverpool August 1998 Muriel Fletcher and Margaret Todd, (second and third from left, middle row) with students and staff of the School of Social Science 1926-27 Source: University of Liverpool Two students who graduated from this University in 1927 play important roles in the film ‘Love…

  • Race and Mixed Race (LS 355)

    Race and Mixed Race (LS 355) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fall 2011 Explores the history of racial classification in the U.S. with special attention to the census and the role of the state more generally in defining race. Emphasis on how race-mixing has been understood in American culture, and on the current literature on “multiracials”…

  • The Invisible Line: American families’ journeys from black to white

    The Invisible Line: American families’ journeys from black to white Research news@Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University 2011-02-17 Amy Wolf The idea of someone transitioning from black to white, without science or surgery, seems hard to grasp on the surface. Yet Vanderbilt Law School professor Daniel J. Sharfstein finds that African Americans have continually crossed the color line…

  • BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain

    BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain British Broadcasting Corporaton 2010-03-10 Mixed-Race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but 100 years ago people of…

  • The Invisible Line: Three American families and the secret journey from black to white [Live Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein]

    The Invisible Line: Three American families and the secret journey from black to white [Live Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein] Minnesota Public Radio News Midmorning Broadcast: 2011-03-15 15:06Z (10:06 CDT, 11:06 EDT, 08:06 PDT) Kerri Miller, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University For much of American history, racial identity has been defined…

  • Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.) [Review]

    Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.)  [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 90, Number 3 (December 2003) page 1107 DOI: 10.2307/3661030 David Rich Lewis, Professor of History Utah State University, Logan Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah.…

  • Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah

    Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah University of Nebraska Press 2002 311 pages Illus., maps Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-3201-3; Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2251-9 R. Warren Metcalf, Associate Professor of United States History University of Oklahoma Termination’s Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who…

  • Some anthropological characteristics of hybrid populations

    Some anthropological characteristics of hybrid populations The Eugenics Review Volume 30, Number 1 (April 1938) pages 21-31 J. C. Trevor, Leonard Darwin Research Fellow It should be explained that “hybrid” is used here in its restricted zoological sense, viz. as relating to intraspecific rather than to interspecific crosses. The adjective “mixed,” though convenient, can be…