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Month: October 2011

  • British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar Investigation

    British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar Investigation New Formations Number 60 (2007) pages 66-78 Lucy Bland, Professor of Social and Cultural History Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom In 1937 a polemic entitled Half-Caste was published, heralding ‘the richness of hybrid potentiality’. Written by a self-defined Eurasian called Cedric Dover its opening…

  • ‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa

    ‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa Gender & History Volume 21, Issue 3 (November 2009) pages 628–646 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01567.x Carina E. Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Based on archival research in Ghana and Britain, this article…

  • White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War

    White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War Gender & History Volume 17, Issue 1 (April 2005) pages 29–61 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2005.00371.x Lucy Bland, Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology London Metropolitan University This article examines miscegenation fears in Britain in the period after World War I, noting three dominant…

  • The Genetic Structure of Admixed Populations

    The Genetic Structure of Admixed Populations Genetics February 1, 1991 Volume 127, Number 2 pages 417–428 Jeffrey C. Long, Professor of Anthropology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque A method for simultaneously estimating the admixture proportions of a hybrid population and Wright’s fixation index, FST, for that hybrid is presented. It is shown that the variance…

  • ‘Mixed Britannia’ – research by LSBU’s Dr Caballero informs BBC series

    ‘Mixed Britannia’ – research by LSBU’s Dr Caballero informs BBC series London South Bank University 2011-10-05 Research conducted by Dr Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow in London South Bank University’s Families and Social Capital Research Group, has formed the foundations of a BBC2 series starting on Thursday 6 October. Dr Caballero was an academic consultant…

  • Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review

    Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review The Telegraph 2011-10-06 Josephine Moulds Josephine Moulds reviews the first episode of BBC Two’s documentary Mixed Britannia, presented by George Alagiah. The first part of an ambitious documentary series, Mixed Britannia, ran last night, continuing BBC Two’s season about mixed-race life in the UK. Over the course of three programmes,…

  • Beware this new mixed-race love-in

    Beware this new mixed-race love-in The Guardian 2011-10-04 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor I’m glad that attitudes to mixed-race people have changed. But does it all mask a subtler kind of racism? Why does everyone want to be like me? According to scientific research (yes, really) I’m not only more beautiful than, but also biologically…

  • Desdemona’s Fire

    Desdemona’s Fire Lotus Press/Wayne State University Press 1999 61 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Paper ISBN: 9780916418830 Ruth Ellen Kocher, Associate Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder This is the author’s first book and winner of the 1999 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. While miscegenation has always been more a part of American history than…

  • Joe Christmas and the Chamber of Secrets – The Black/ White Dilemma in William Faulkner’s Light in August

    Joe Christmas and the Chamber of Secrets – The Black/ White Dilemma in William Faulkner’s Light in August Africa Resource 2010-04-04 21 paragraphs Isabel Adonis, Writer and Artist I read William Faulkner’s Light in August in my early teens and I scarcely understood it.  But I understood something and many years later a woman at…

  • Black Welsh Identity: the unspeakable speaks.

    Black Welsh Identity: the unspeakable speaks. British Broadcasting Corporation North West Wales 2006-05-30 Isabel Adonis, Writer and Artist Isabel Adonis was born in London and brought up in Llandudno, the Sudan and Nigeria. She spent 21 years in Bethesda before returning to Llandudno. She helped found Timbuktu, a new international arts and literary journal. This…