Mixed Race Studies

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When we see a black body [President Barack Obama] embodying the American state, and particularly a black body that didn’t have to be black—that could have chose some other kind of intersectional identity. And was no, “I’m black.” On his census form, “I’m black.” And then married Michelle who looked black from way over there and got regular hair; and had some little black baby girls and braided their hair up; and then lived on the South Side of Chicago; and hung out with some black people; and just, “black, black, black, black, black.” Over and over again. And so it means something to us…

Melissa Harris-Perry, “Sister Citizen: Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America,” Walter H. Capps Center Series Lecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 4, 2011: (00:55:20-00:56:00). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blX2YHdqUJA.

Interracial relationships and the ‘brown baby’ problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain

Interracial relationships and the ‘brown baby’ problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain

University of Cambridge
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Seminar Room 1
Tuesday, 2015-11-17, 17:00-18:30Z

Lucy Bland, Reader in History
Anglia Ruskin University

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