Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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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…
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Some Anthropological Characteristics of Anglo-Negro Children The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 73, Numbers 1/2 (1943) pages 57-73 K. L. Little, M.A., Ph.D. The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge I. Introduction Although fairly large Negro communities have been in existence in Liverpool, Cardiff, London…
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Children of the banished dragon The Daily Post Liverpool, England 2006-01-23 Lew Baxter Lew Baxter reports on a shameful episode after World War II when Chinese sailors who had risked their lives for Britain were deported back to China, many leaving behind distraught British wives and children. Even 60 years later, tears and trauma trail…
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Eurasians: The First British Born Chinese? DimSum: The British Chinese community website 2007-06-30 Yvonne Foley I am a Eurasian. I am the daughter of an English mother and a Shanghai father. In traditional Chinese culture, having a Chinese father, I am regarded as being Chinese. I am part of a community that has been around…
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While the British government was somewhat pressured by white seamen’s organisations to protect jobs for whites, the primary cause of the anxieties underlying the Coloured Alien Seamen Order moved far beyond employment issues in the shipping industry. As has been well-documented by several scholars, the effort to limit immigration of African seamen to Britain was…
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Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space Cultural Anthropology Volume 13, Issue 3 (August 1998) pages 291–325 DOI: 10.1525/can.1998.13.3.291 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The terms black Liverpool and black America, no less than the African diaspora, refer to racialized geographies of…