Tag: England

  • The lower class of women in England, are remarkably fond of the blacks, for reasons too brutal to mention; they would connect themselves with horses and asses if the laws permitted them. By these ladies they generally have a numerous brood. Thus, in the course of a few generations more, the English blood will become…

  • Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool Princeton University Press 2005 312 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-4008-2641-4 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its…

  • 2011 Census: Key Statistics for England and Wales, March 2011 (Ethnic Group) Office for National Statistics (ONS) Census 2011 Ethnic Group: Part of 2011 Census, Key Statistics for Local Authorities in England and Wales Release Release Date: 2012-12-11 Figure 3: Ethnic groups by English regions and Wales, 2011 Ethnicity across the English regions and Wales Figure…

  • A Color Problem in England The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 95, Number 3 (1930-07-19) Foreign Letters: London Letter pages 210-211 DOI: 10.1001/jama.1930.02720030040020 From Our Regular Correspondent (1930-06-21) There is no color line in England such as exists in America. This does not mean that the English do not appreciate differences of race.…

  • Runnymede film nominated for Limelight Award Runnymede Trust 2012-05-10 Clench, a Runnymede short film written and directed by Riffat Ahmed, has been nominated in the Best Drama category at this year’s Limelight Film Awards, to be held on 14 June 2012.   Made as part of the Generation 3.0 project, the film tells the story…

  • A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn, Germany Discussion Paper No. 6394 February 2012 21 pages Zhiqiang Feng, Research Fellow University of St. Andrews Maarten van Ham, Professor of Urban Renewal Delft University of Technology and IZA Paul Boyle,…

  • Election of the first black mayor Daily Mail 1913-11-10 Source: mytimemachine.co.uk Coloured Mayor—Majority of One at Battersea—Dramatic Speech For the first time in the history of this country a man of colour has been elected mayor of a borough. The honour has fallen to Mr. John Richard Archer, a photographer, of Battersea Park-Road, who by…

  • Clench: What are You Fighting For? Commissioned By: Runnymede Trust-UK’s Leading Race Equality Think Tank 2011 Written and directed by Riffat Ahmed Produced by Shane Davey, Courtney Edwards, Riffat Ahmed and Fabien Soazandry of Davey Inc Running Time: 00:15:39 Starring: Hussina Raja as Ash With: Kevin Morris, Jeff Caffrey, Afreen Mhar, Allan Hopwood, and Danny Randall…

  • This article examines a controversial report that focused negatively on mixed heritage children born and raised in the city of Liverpool. The official title was: “Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports.”  The social researcher was Muriel E. Fletcher, who had been trained in the Liverpool School of Social…

  • Racialised relations in Liverpool: A contemporary anomaly   Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 17, Issue 4 (1991) pages 511-537 DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1991.9976265 Stephen Small, Associate Professor, African American Studies; Associate Director of the Institute of International Studies; Director, The Rotary International Center for Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution University of California, Berkeley The…