Silver City, New Mexico – Veronica is a typical 14-year-old girl: she just wants to do well in school, hang out with her friends, and enjoy her family. But one day at school, a boy accuses, “Veronica, I heard your mom is black.” Meanwhile, the black girls are demanding allegiance to them, while some white girls […]
It is no longer a novelty to see people of different races and ethnicity holding hands and going about their daily lives. Between 1991 and 2001, the British population grew by 4.0 per cent, while the mixed population increased by 138 per cent; and in 2008 the Office of National Statistics reported more people involved
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Mix-d: uk is a publication looking at mixed race identities from the Multiple Heritage Project and the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust. It celebrates the UK’s diverse Multiple Heritage population through portraits of people of mixed background.
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This book contains thirty biographies of mixed-race figures from the past and present. Historical biographies include famous names such as Bob Marley, Mary Seacole and Frederick Douglass, as well as less-known people like Arthur Wharton, the first black professional footballer, Ellen Craft, the runaway slave, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the composer.
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Robert Wedderburn was one of the key campaigners against slavery at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The Axe Laid To The Root – The Story of Robert Wedderburn Read More »
In this book twelve poets have been interviewed about their childhood and school experiences, how they became poets and who influenced them, how they write and where they have performed, their favourite poets and poems, what they write about and their advice to budding poets.
Moving Voices – Black Performance Poetry Read More »
This book is a guide to raising multiracial children with a positive attitude towards their identity. It stresses the importance of embracing and understanding all aspects of a child’s heritage and is aimed at parents. Francis Wardle draws on his considerable experience positively towards every aspect of their descent and not to identify exclusively with
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Marie Macey has written out of concern that so – called 'transracial adoption', which has been counterpoised with policies which insist on 'same race' placement in fostering and adoption, has become an ideological battlefield, rather than a topic that is discussed in relation to experience and to investigation of the evidence. Macey challenges the social
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Dyslexia is a critical issue worldwide. There is widespread ignorance about it and the consequences can be devastating. Recently there have been studies of the impact of different languages on dyslexics, but nothing which looks at the black experience of dyslexia.
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