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  • 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…

  • Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain

    Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain University of Leicester Press Release 2007-01-24 Research reveals African origins in the UK and US New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst “indigenous” British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their…

  • Characterizing the Admixed African Ancestry of African Americans

    Characterizing the Admixed African Ancestry of African Americans Genome Biology Volume 10, Issue 12 (2009) R141 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-12-r141 Fouad Zakharia Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine Analabha Basu Institute for Human Genetics University of California, San Francisco Devin Absher HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama Themistocles L. Assimes Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Stanford…

  • A Silenced History from Belgian Congo: A Mixed Race History

    A Silenced History from Belgian Congo: A Mixed Race History Afro-Europe International Blog 2010-06-15 Sibo Kano The Bastards in Our Colony: Hidden Stories of Belgian Metis You haven’t heard much from me lately. I was writing a book and it’s finally finished and published. The book I wrote together with Kathleen Ghequière traces back a…

  • Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy

    Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy European Journal of Human Genetics Volume 15 (2007) pages 288–293 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201771 Turi E. King University of Leicester Emma J. Parkin University of Leicester Geoff Swinfield Geoff Swinfield Genealogical Services, Mottingham, London Fulvio Cruciani Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’…

  • The ‘Native’ Undefined: Colonial Categories, Anglo-African Status and the Politics of Kinship in British Central Africa, 1929-38

    The ‘Native’ Undefined: Colonial Categories, Anglo-African Status and the Politics of Kinship in British Central Africa, 1929-38 The Journal of African History Volume 46, Issue 3 (2005) pages 455-478 DOI: 10.1017/S0021853705000861 Christopher Joon-Hai Lee University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This article examines the categorical problem that persons of ‘mixed-race’ background presented to British administrations…

  • Africans in China: Sweet and Sour in Guangzhou

    Africans in China: Sweet and Sour in Guangzhou The Africa Report 2010-02-01 Namvula Rennie Deterred by immigration controls in the West, African families and traders are moving to major Chinese cities, adding a new dimension to China-Africa relations. It’s raining again in Guangzhou. The downpours are sudden and violent, but do little to cool the…

  • Mixed bodies, separate races: The trope of the “(tragic) mulatto” in twentieth-century African literature

    Mixed bodies, separate races: The trope of the “(tragic) mulatto” in twentieth-century African literature McMaster University (Canada) 2007 251 pages AAT NR57539 Diana Adesola Mafe, Assistant Professor of English Denison University This dissertation proposes that the American literary trope of the “tragic mulatto” has both roots and resonances in sub-Saharan Africa. The concept of the…

  • “A Black Girl Should Not be With a White Man”: Sex, Race, and African Women’s Social and Legal Status in Colonial Gabon, c. 1900–1946

    “A Black Girl Should Not be With a White Man”: Sex, Race, and African Women’s Social and Legal Status in Colonial Gabon, c. 1900–1946 Journal of Women’s History Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 2010 E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961 DOI: 10.1353/jowh.0.0140 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Associate Professor of African History University of California, Davis This article reviews…

  • The half-caste and the dream of secularism and freedom: Insights from East African Asian writing

    The half-caste and the dream of secularism and freedom: Insights from East African Asian writing Scrutiny2 Volume 13, Issue 2 (September 2008) pages 16 – 35 DOI: 10.1080/18125440802485987 Dan Ojwang, Senior Lecturer of African Literature University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Focusing on the work of Bahadur Tejani, Peter Nazareth and Moyez Vassanji, this…