Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities

    Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities Rodopi 2002 152 pages Hardback: 978-90-420-1378-0 / 90-420-1378-8 Paperback: 978-90-420-1368-1 / 90-420-1368-0 Edited by: Elizabeth Russell, Professor of Womens Studies and British Literature University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona The essays in this collection (on Canada, the USA, Australia and the UK) question and discuss the issues of cross-cultural…

  • 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…

  • I Define My Own Identity: Pacific Articulations of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’on the Internet

    I Define My Own Identity: Pacific Articulations of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’on the Internet Ethnicities Vol. 3, No. 4 pp. 465-490 (2003) DOI: 10.1177/1468796803003004002 Marianne I. Franklin University of Amsterdam Most of the participants in the internet discussion forums, the Kava Bowl and the Kamehameha Roundtable, herald from the South Pacific islands of Tonga and Samoa.…

  • Australian Mixed Race

    Australian Mixed Race European Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 7, Number 2 (May 2004) pages 177-199 DOI: 10.1177/1367549404042493 Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia This article argues against the case for colour-blindness as a fundamental principle of liberal policy and recommends more colour consciousness rather than less.…