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The Fletcher Report 1930: A Historical Case Study of Contested Black Mixed Heritage Britishness

2011-10-07

This article examines a controversial report that focused negatively on mixed heritage children born and raised in the city of Liverpool. The official title was: “Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports.” The social researcher was Muriel E. Fletcher, who had been trained in the Liverpool School of Social…
British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar Investigation

2011-10-07

British Eugenics and ‘Race Crossing’: a Study of an Interwar Investigation New Formations Number 60 (2007) pages 66-78 Lucy Bland, Professor of Social and Cultural History Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom In 1937 a polemic entitled Half-Caste was published, heralding ‘the richness of hybrid potentiality’. Written by a self-defined Eurasian called Cedric Dover its opening…
Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report)

2011-06-21

Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report) Eugenics Review Volume 33, Number 4 (January 1942) pages 112-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge With the exception of a large number of family studies secured by Miss R. M. Fleming, little anthropological attention…
Anthropological Studies of Children

2011-04-06

Anthropological Studies of Children Eugenics Review Volume 18, Number 4 (January 1927) pages 294-301 Rachel M. Fleming Some ten years ago, with the guidance and help of Professor Fleure, of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, I began to study race type in women, and from the study of divergent-race characteristics…
BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain

2011-03-16

BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain British Broadcasting Corporaton 2010-03-10 Mixed-Race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but 100 years ago people of…
Whatever action may be taken to prevent such intermixture in the future, if it can be proved to be undesirable, it certainly seems a bad policy of citizenship to penalize half-castes for a fault of birth for which they are in no way responsible.

2010-12-10

For some time past the writer has been in close contact with girls of Anglo-Chinese and Anglo-Negro origin who are unable to find employment because social stigma refuses to allow them to mix in our society in the ordinary way. They are British citizens, and they are the weakest of our citizens, and as such…
Human hybrids in various parts of the world

2010-12-09

Political issues involving the right of so-called ‘superior’ races to preserve privileges denied to other races on account of their so-called ‘inferiority’ are tending to darken counsel in the study of racial biology. Another form of political effort is a desire to demonstrate separateness of physical type, so that a subject race may claim autonomy.…
Race Crossing

2010-08-13

…Fleming’s use of the term ‘passing’ is also worthy of comment. Not only does it have the connotation of deceit and disguise, but it also implies that the offspring of mixed heritage could never be truly English, despite their birth in England and their English mothers. To cross racial boundaries (‘race crossing’) had two meanings:…

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