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  • Transatlantic Liverpool: Shades of the Black Atlantic

    In Transatlantic Liverpool: Shades of the Black Atlantic, Mark Christian presents a Black British study within the context of the transatlantic and Liverpool, England.

  • A British betrayal: the secret deportations of Chinese merchant sailors

    During the second world war, Chinese sailors served alongside their British allies in the merchant navy, heroically keeping supply lines open to the UK. But after the war hundreds of them who had settled in Liverpool suddenly disappeared. Now their children are piecing together the truth

  • Reflections on Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

    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…

  • The half-Chinese children on growing up find little difficulty in obtaining work or in entering into marriage with the surrounding white population…

    The half-Chinese children on growing up find little difficulty in obtaining work or in entering into marriage with the surrounding white population. The girls in particular are attractive and good-looking. On the other hand, the Anglo-negroid children when grown up do not easily get work or mix with the ordinary population. Maurice Broody, “The Social…

  • The family who never knew their father

    Our story about the forced repatriation of Chinese sailors who had been recruited for the Merchant Navy during World War Two told of the devastation for those families left behind. Barbara Janecek shared her own tale in response.

  • Looking for my Shanghai father

    After World War Two ended, the British government forcibly repatriated hundreds of Chinese sailors who had been recruited for the Merchant Navy. Their sudden departure had a devastating effect on families left behind, like that of Yvonne Foley.

  • Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool

    Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool Liverpool University Press March 2014 288 pages 16 black and white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 maps 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781846319679 Paperback ISBN: 9781781380000 John Belchem, Emeritus Professor of History University of Liverpool Long before the arrival of the ‘Empire Windrush’ after the Second…

  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective

    Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective Palgrave Macmillan September 2000 186 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-312-23219-1 ISBN10: 0-312-23219-5 Mark Christian, Professor of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Multiracial Identity provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews)…

  • Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football

    Mixing Up the Game: Social and Historical Contours of Black Mixed Heritage Players in British Football Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York pages 131-144 in the volume Race, Ethnicity and Football: Persisting Debates and Emergent Issues Routledge 2011-03-29 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88205-7…

  • The Difficulty of Defining “mixed-race”

    The very definition of a “mixed-race” society is fraught with difficulty, and this is one of the problems of acknowledgement, even in Liverpool. All the current terms are inadequate: The term “half-caste” has long been discredited, but even newer terms; “mixed-race” and “dual heritage” have their own problems. “Dual heritage” suggests a child living with…