Tag: half-caste

  • Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool Princeton University Press 2005 312 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-4008-2641-4 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its…

  • Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report) Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent at Canterbury July 2006 Peter Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana…

  • The Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports or simply, The Fletcher Report of 1930 was a report sponsored by the Liverpool [England] Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children in December, 1927.  The report, released on 1930-06-16, was written by Muriel E. Fletcher a 1920 graduate of the University of…

  • Half-caste  is a term used to describe people of mixed race or ethnicity. Caste comes from the Latin castus, meaning pure, and the derivative Portuguese and Spanish casta, meaning race. The term originates from the Indian caste system, where a person of ‘lesser’ or half-caste would be deemed to be of a ‘lower class’. While…