Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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An unmanageable Commodity to have imported into this white Country: Growing up Mixed-Race in India and Scotland, 1780-1830 Institute of Historical Research Senate House (Room 103) Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Tuesday, 2014-01-14, 17:15-19:15Z Ellen Filor University College London Seminar Series: Life-Cycles (Spring Term 2014) This seminar series will address issues relating to the life-cycle…
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Three years prior to the ending of the slave trade, Jamaica’s richest and most influential merchant mused on the possible consequences of abolition. Writing to his friend George Hibbert in January of 1804, Simon Taylor offered a stark vision of the British imperial economy without slave importation, echoing scores of other pro-slavery writers who preached…
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Missing faces The Guardian 2007-03-23 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University As the United Kingdom marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade tomorrow, Jackie Kay challenges fellow Scots to acknowledge their forebears’ part in this shameful history and reflects on the ordeal suffered by her ancestors We’re perhaps over-fond…
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Scottish people’s DNA study could ‘rewrite nation’s history’ The Guardian 2012-08-14 Charlotte Higgins, Chief Arts Writer Evidence of African, Arabian, south-east Asian and Siberian ancestry in Scotland, says author of book tracing genetic journey A large scale study of Scottish people’s DNA is threatening to “rewrite the nation’s history”, according to author Alistair Moffat. Scotland,…
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African-Scottish families A North East Story: Scotland, Africa and Slavery in the Caribbean 2008 This exhibition has been organised by an Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Bicentenary Committee to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Britain’s outlawing of the African slave trade in 1807. It follows on from a service of commemoration and a series of public lectures…
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The Forgotten Diaspora The Official Gateway to Scotland 2008 Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences Heriot-Watt University I was born in Jamaica in 1940, the largest British island in the Caribbean. I emigrated to London in 1955 to join my mother and earn a living. She had emigrated in 1948. In…
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Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Migration from the West Indies to Britain, 1750-1820 The University of Michigan 2010 481 pages Daniel Alan Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History) in The University of Michigan 2010 This dissertation shows…
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‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’
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Jackie Kay’s Representation of ‘The Broons’: Scotland’s Happy Family eSharp Special Issue: Spinning Scotland: Exploring Literary and Cultural Perspectives (2009) pages 109-143 ISSN: 1742-4542 Mª del Coral Calvo Maturana Universidad de Granada This paper focuses on the contemporary Scottish poet Jackie Kay and the comic strip ‘The Broons’ by studying Jackie Kay’s representation of this…