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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From Her Dad To Her ‘Jamish’ Roots, A Poet Pieces Her Story Together All Things Considered National Public Radio 2014-12-28 Arun Rath, Host Growing up in 1970s England, Salena Godden stood out. Her mother was Jamaican and her father was an Irish jazz musician who mysteriously disappeared from her life when she was very young.…
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“Springfield Road” is a journey into childhood in the late 1970s, a time of halfpenny sweets, fish and chips in newspaper, scrumping apples and foraging for conkers. Set in the dawn of Thatcher’s Britain, it’s a salute to every curly-top, scabby knee’d, mixed-up, half-crazy kid with NHS glasses, free school dinners and hand-me- downs, as…
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Our love is colour blind but we face prejudice – Northern Ireland mixed race couples tell of their experiences The Belfast Telegraph 2016-11-28 Kerry McKittrick With film A United Kingdom at cinemas now, a true story documenting the political fall-out from an inter-racial relationship in Britain and South Africa of the 1940s, Kerry McKittrick talks…
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She’s a SOAS fellow and former model, and now Emma Dabiri is fronting a new BBC show as part of the broadcaster’s “Black and British” season. She talks race, immigration and the politics of hair
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The pioneer black manager who became Don Revie’s ‘superspy’ The Telegraph 2016-10-20 Jim White Tony Collins became England’s first black manager at Rochdale in 1960 Credit: Jon Super for The Telegraph When he managed Rochdale back in the early Sixties, Tony Collins earned £1,500 a year. Fifty-four years on, as he sits reminiscing in a…
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Tony Collins, Football Master Spy Book Guild Publishing Ltd 2016-10-27 270 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781910878934 Quentin Cope & Sarita Collins The English Football League’s First Black Manager This is the story of the English football league’s first black manager. Tony Collins was a young man, born into disadvantaged circumstances, in a time period between two…
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Helping mixed heritage children develop ‘character and resilience’ in schools Improving Schools November 2016, Volume 19, Number 3 pages 197-211 DOI: 10.1177/1365480216650311 Kirstin Lewis Educational Studies Goldsmiths, University of London Recent UK government policy suggests that all schools have a key role to play in building ‘character and resilience’ in children. This article draws on…
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Reflections on Dr Martin Luther King Jr. International Slavery Museum Dr Martin Luther King Jr building, Albert Dock Liverpool, United Kingdom 2016-09-21, 13:00-16:00 BST (Local Time) Dr Mark Christian, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Black Liverpool and grassroots education in L8 There remains a burning need in…
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Expat Mom Maria Tumolo On Raising A Multicultural Family In England The Voix: Diverse Narratives. Native Insights 2016-07-07 Although she was happy and content with her life as it were back in Trinidad, Maria Tumolo was at a crossroad regarding her professional and personal development. She had received a firm offer of admission from Edinburgh…