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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Census 2011: Leicester ‘most ethnically diverse’ in region BBC News 2012-12-11 Leicester is one of the most diverse cities in the UK and the largest in the East Midlands, the latest census shows. Information from the 2011 survey shows there are 329,000 people living in the city, 24,000 more than in Nottingham, while 250,000 live…
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Canada’s Métis win 142-year-old land ruling BBC News 2013-03-08 Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled the government failed to hand out land grants properly to the Métis indigenous group 142 years ago. In a 6-2 ruling, the top court said the failure was “not a matter of occasional negligence, but of repeated mistakes and inaction”. The…
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Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London BBC News Magazine 2012-07-19 Michael Wood The black trumpeter John Blanke played regularly at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII The reign of Elizabeth I saw the beginning of Britain’s first black community. It’s a fascinating story for modern Britons, writes historian Michael Wood. Walk out…
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Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam fetches record price BBC News 2012-05-24 A painting by Cuban surrealist artist Wifredo Lam fetched a record personal price at a Latin American art sale at auctioneers Sotheby’s in New York. An unnamed South American collector paid $4.5m (£2.9m) for Lam’s 1944 Idol (Oya/Divinite de l’Air et de la mort), well…
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Plaque honour for ‘first black star’ Elisabeth Welch BBC News 2012-02-27 The singer Elisabeth Welch is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in south-west London. She is the second black woman to be honoured with a blue plaque in London. It will be unveiled in Ovington Court, Kensington, which was her home…