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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Tag: Bristol
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The children, who came to be known by the British press as the nation’s “Brown Babies”, grew up in post-war Britain
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A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman’s search through her family’s story
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One of Bristol’s oldest state schools has decided to ditch the names of its houses – including one named after Edward Colston – in favour of more inspiring names who are better role models.
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Cleo Lake, the Lord Mayor of Bristol, has removed a portrait of Edward Colston from the wall of her office because of his role in the slave trade. …she said she ‘simply couldn’t stand’ the sight of Edward Colston looking at her as she worked.
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FOR nearly 20 years, my great-great-great-grandfather’s portrait has watched over me from my red dining room wall. With his high collar, ruffled cravat and black waistcoat, Samuel Fales, 1775-1848, is the very image of the upstanding 19th-century New England gentleman.
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Marvin Rees Becomes UK’s First Elected Black Mayor The Voice 2016-05-14 Marc Wadsworth ‘I’m the descendant of Jamaican slaves. Now I’m mayor of Bristol,’ Rees tells The Voice BRISTOL’S NEW mayor has not only changed the face of the city after winning a huge victory but is also promising a new and inclusive way of…
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Marvin Rees’s triumph as mayor defies Bristol’s racist past The Guardian 2016-05-08 Simon Woolley Source: Marvin Rees The descendant of enslaved Africans is now running a former slave city. His symbolic victory gives hope – and should not be forgotten While much has been said, rightly so, about a Muslim now leading London, we must…
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Tangled Roots: A Performance of Real-Life Stories Celebrating Mixed Race Families Trinity Centre Trinity Road Bristol, England BS2 0NW 2014-10-19, 14:00-20:00 BST (Local Time) Free life-writing workshop and performance with Dr Katy Massey – part of our Black History Month programme On Sunday 19 October, Tangled Roots are staging a live workshop and performance event…