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  • Who Do You Think You Are? [with Reggie Yates]

    Who Do You Think You Are? Reggie Yates [with Reggie Yates] Who Do You Think You Are? BBC One Series 11: Episode 8 of 10 Running Time: 00:59:09 First Aired: 2014-09-25 Presenter and DJ Reggie Yates grew up knowing very little about his father’s side of the family. Reggie sets out on the trail of…

  • Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast

    Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast The American Historical Review Volume 119, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 78-110 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/119.1.78 Carina E. Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts In the summer and fall of 1919, the African-owned Gold Coast…

  • Why Do You Call Yourself Black And African?

    A little over a year ago I received an email with the subject line “Ok I wonder why you call yourself ‘black’ and ‘African’” from a self-described longtime New African reader. Even if subsequent emails have been less direct in their articulation of the same underlying sentiment, they all point in a similar direction: some…

  • The Origins of Mixed Race Populations

    The Origins of Mixed Race Populations New African January 2005 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts While rape played a huge part in the origins of Africa and the Diaspora’s mixed race populations, it is wrong to attribute it all to rape, argues Carina Ray. In the…

  • A troubled experiment’s forgotten lesson in racial integration

    A troubled experiment’s forgotten lesson in racial integration Point Reyes Light Point Reyes Station, California 2012-03-15 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts The year 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of my Puerto Rican mother and Irish-Italian father’s unusual wedding. They met and married in an experimental community…

  • ‘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…

  • 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…

  • Why I claim my blackness…

    If blackness in America has been defined broadly enough to claim me as one of its own, that still leaves the question of why I claim my blackness. I could call myself mixed race or even Latina/Hispanic.  I certainly recognize that I am multi-racial, but I don’t feel a common bond with mixed people simply…