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: Yvonne Foley
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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.
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Children of the banished dragon The Daily Post Liverpool, England 2006-01-23 Lew Baxter Lew Baxter reports on a shameful episode after World War II when Chinese sailors who had risked their lives for Britain were deported back to China, many leaving behind distraught British wives and children. Even 60 years later, tears and trauma trail…
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Eurasians: The First British Born Chinese? DimSum: The British Chinese community website 2007-06-30 Yvonne Foley I am a Eurasian. I am the daughter of an English mother and a Shanghai father. In traditional Chinese culture, having a Chinese father, I am regarded as being Chinese. I am part of a community that has been around…