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Relationships

Books

Mixed Matches: How to create successful interracial, interethnic, and interfaith relationships

Mixed Matches: How to create successful interracial, interethnic, and interfaith relationships by Joel Crohn (Fawcett Books, 1995)
As the title suggests, this book covers many of the core issues effecting those considering, embarking on, or in an interracial relationship. Considering such issues as how culture shapes individuals, understanding differing views between cultures, raising children and managing the demands of family and friends.
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Intercultural Marriage: Promises and pitfalls

Intercultural Marriage: Promises & pitfalls by Dugan Romano (Intercultural Press, 2001)
In this comprehensive work, the author examines the impact of cultural differences on marriage and offers practical guidelines for dealing with the complexities involved. The book suggests that the joys of an intercultural marriage often result as much from overcoming the obstacles as from the adventure of crossing cultures.
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The Construction of Racial Identity in Children of Mixed Parentage: Mixed metaphors by Katz Ilan (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1996)
Based on research of interracial families with young children, this book reviews the previous literature relating to racial identity development, and features insights into mixed-race relationships and interracial families.
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Ethnic Minority Families (PSI Report) by S Beishon, T Modood and S Virdee (Policy Studies Institute, 1998)
Study into Afro-Caribbean, Asian, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi marriage, cohabitation, children, mixed-race relationships and inter-ethnic racism.
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Joining Hands and Hearts: Interfaith, intercultural wedding celebrations: A practical guide for couples

Joining Hands and Hearts: Interfaith, intercultural wedding celebrations: A practical guide for couples by Susanna Stefanachi Macomb and Andrea Thompson (Atria Books, 2003)
A troubleshooting guide for those attempting to bridge the often precarious bridge between each family's wishes as they embark on cross-cultural wedlock.
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Kitty and the Prince: A Victorian tragedy

Kitty and the Prince: A Victorian tragedy by Ben Shephard (Profile Books, 2003)
'I read Kitty and the Prince at one sitting with fascination and amazement: it told me much more about racial attitudes than any number of solemn studies.' Anthony Sampson. The true story of Prince Lobengula, who caused a scandal at the turn of the century by marrying Kitty Jewell, a pretty, respectable Cornish girl. 'There is nothing more disgusting than the mating of a white woman and a black savage,' declared the Daily Mail.
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Mixed Feelings: The complex lives of mixed-race Britons

Mixed Feelings: The complex lives of mixed-race Britons by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (The Women's Press, 2001)
A journey in six chapters: History up to 1900; History after 1900; The Current Landscape; Identity; Family and Relationships; and Social Policy. This is a fascinating and highly informative read. Via innumerable interviews the book sets out to answer questions such as: Is it really possible to overcome indefatigable historical prejudices through a defiant/romantic act?
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Websites

Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations
www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/CRER_RC/resources.html
Enter this University of Warwick website and click on 'Search the CRER Database', enter 'relationships' and discover an abundance of articles, books and studies, regarding such topics as mixed-race relationships, interracial families and inter-ethnic racism.

Between Two Worlds
www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,11374,930606,00.html
Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations – but many people are still hostile towards interracial couples. Geraldine Bedell of The Observer includes detailed quotes from some of the people whose lives have been affected.

In search of the big bamboo
www.utne.com/2000-01-01/In-Search-of-the-Big-Bamboo.aspx
Fascinating article by a teacher of sociology and anthropology on women's sex tourism in the Caribbean.

Parent's note needed for interracial dating
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/670184.stm
Article on the private American college, Bob Jones University, which had previously placed a ban on any interracial dating among its pupils.

Muslim leader backs Blunkett
www.guardian.co.uk/racism/Story/0,2763,647497,00.html
David Blunkett received the backing of a British Muslim leader for saying that Asian families who arrange marriages should seek spouses from Britain and not from overseas. Blunkett said this would help reduce the 'terrible tension that exists when people are trapped between two cultures and backgrounds'.

People in Harmony
www.pih.org.uk
People in Harmony is an interracial anti-racist organisation which promotes the positive experience of interracial life in Britain today and challenges the racism, prejudice and ignorance in society. A detailed, dedicated site including numerous articles, reviews, features, debates and links.

Racism and discrimination

Organisations

Equality and Human Rights Commission
Arndale House
The Arndale Centre
Manchester M4 3AQ
Tel: 0161 829 8100 (non-helpline calls only)
Fax: 01925 884 000
E-mail: info@equalityhumanrights.com
Website: www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/Pages/default.aspx
Works to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in society. Also has office in London and Cardiff.

Searchlight
Tel: 020 7681 8660
Fax: 020 7681 8650
Website: www.searchlightmagazine.com
Magazine and organisation dedicated to combating racism, neo-Nazism, fascism and all forms of prejudice.

Institute of Race Relations
2-6 Leeke Street
King's Cross Road
London WC1X 9HS
Tel: 020 7837 0041 (10am-5pm Mon-Thurs)
E-mail: info@irr.org.uk
Website: www.irr.org.uk
Deals with all aspects of race relations. Affiliated with the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, www.carf.demon.co.uk

Websites

How Racist is Britain?
www.channel4.com/life/microsites/R/racism/index.html
On this website you can explore your own attitudes, find out if you're guilty of stereotyping, see if you can recognise a racist comment and learn about the language on the street.

London: A city divided
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,11255,605340,00.html
'In this country, in 15 or 20 years' time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man. Whole areas, towns and parts of towns across England will be occupied by different sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population.' Ben Arogundade investigates whether Enoch Powell's xenophobic vision is about to become reality. Are white people about to become a minority in the city they once thought their own?

Briton 'a racist society' – poll
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1993597.stm
An opinion poll commissioned by BBC News Online found that 44% of those asked believe immigration has damaged Britain over the last 50 years.

History and slavery

Books

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Across the Dark Waters: Indian identity in the Caribbean (Warwick University Caribbean Studies) edited by David Dabydeen and Brinsley Samaroo (Caribbean Publishing, 1996)
Fresh insights and new research in the area of race and gender relations, Indo/African cross-cultural accommodation and Indo-Caribbean history. The essays examine the personal and inter-ethnic conflicts that arose when disparate peoples were thrown together under tight plantation discipline. Both 19th and 20th century developments are covered, allowing an evaluation of the contemporary situation. Features contributors from the Caribbean, North America and Europe.
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Coolie Odyssey by David Dabydeen (Hansib Publications, 1988)
A poetic and moving account of the sad, yet optimistic, journey from India to the Caribbean under the veil of indentured labour. This lyrical narration bears testament to human courage in the face of adversity.
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The Eighteenth-Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786 by Michael Chenoweth and Thomas Thistlewood (Amer Philosophical Society, 2003)
Includes details of Thistlewood's exhaustive and sordid cataloguing of his rampant sexual adventures. More often than not this included systematic rape, assault and overwhelming abuse of the power and control he had over his slave community.
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Windrush: The irresistible rise of multi-racial Britain

Windrush: The irresistible rise of multi-racial Britain by Trevor Phillips and Mike Phillips (HarperCollins, 1999)
The story of 500 West Indians who made a 30-day journey across the Atlantic in an ageing merchant ship, the Empire Windrush. They were to become the symbolic founders of Britain's black communities. For the first time there were would be communities that would not, could not, blend into the background. British society faced an entirely new challenge. This text tells the story through the eyes of the survivors of that first voyage, their descendants, friends and colleagues.
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Black Ivory, Slavery in the British Empire

Black Ivory, Slavery in the British Empire by James Walvin (Blackwell Publishers, 2001)
Covers all aspects of African slavery up to 1776. A detailed, compassionate account of this brutal history, made all the more striking with the inclusion of several, detailed personal histories.
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An African's Life: The life and times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1797

An African's Life: The life and times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1797 (The Black Atlantic) by James Walvin (Continuum International Publishing Group – Leicester University Press, 2000)
The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. The fate of Equiano mirrors that of millions of Africans in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Quoted and interpreted in dozens of earlier books and articles, this study attempts to reveal a rounded portrait of the man behind the image.
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Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African diaspora

Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African diaspora (The Black Atlantic) by James Walvin (Continuum International Publishing Group – Leicester University Press, 2000)
The British carried more Africans across the Atlantic than any other nation. The shadow of slavery lingered long after the trade itself had died – racism survived deep into the 20th century, with continuing consequences for British domestic life.
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The Slavery Reader

The Slavery Reader by Gad Heuman and James Walvin (Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books, 2003)
Brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery, tracing the range and impact of slavery on the modern Western world. With clear and authoritative commentary, this volume is central to the study of slavery.
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Britain's Slave Empire by James Walvin (Tempus Publishing, 2000)
'A thought-provoking and invaluable contribution to the slavery debate … holds the reader's attention to the last page' BBC History Magazine.
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The Slave Trade (Sutton Pocket Histories) by James Walvin (Sutton Publishing, 1999)
In the four centuries before the 1860s, the Atlantic slave trade transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the material well-being of the West and wrought enormous damage on Africa. This text aims to provide a fresh narrative and interpretation suitable for students and general readers alike.
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Questioning Slavery by James Walvin (Ian Randle Publishers, 1997)
In this book, Walvin examines the European experience with slavery in the past, the origins of the institution, the reason for the enslavement of Africans and the impact of slavery upon the developing European economy. Also included are the means of domination and its effect upon the enslaved, the different roles of male and female slaves, slave resistance, and, finally, the demise of the institution.
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Atlas of Slavery by James Walvin (Longman, 2004)
Forthcoming comprehensive visual history of slavery from its origins in the ancient world to the present, focusing on the American experience.
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Fruits of Empire: Exotic produce and British trade, 1660-1800 by James Walvin (Palgrave MacMillan, 1997)
What could be more British than a sweet cup of tea? James Walvin shows how the tastes of the British people were transformed by the fruits of distant empire and trade.
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Slave and Slavery: The British colonial experience by James Walvin (Manchester University Press, 1992)
A broad outline of the history of slavery and the slave trade in the British colonies, up to the year all slaves in British possession were freed, 1838.
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Websites

Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/index.htm
Olaudah Equiano (c1745-1797) was born in what is now Nigeria. Kidnapped and sold into slavery in childhood, he was taken as a slave to the New World. He eventually earned the price of his own freedom by careful trading and saving. Coming to London, he became involved in the movement to abolish the slave trade. A detailed site with further links to biographies, maps of Equiano's travels and extracts from his abolitionist autobiography.

The Slave Route
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=25659&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
A polished and detailed website dedicated to continuing dialogue and the study of the history of the slave trade and the shadow it continues to cast. Contains links and comment on heritage, culture, creativity and the arts.

More than Producers and Reproducers: Jamaican Slave Women's Dance and Song in the 1770s-1830s
www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/papers/2000/olv1p3.pdf
Taken from The Society For Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Papers, this thesis by Henrice Altink, PhD student at the University of Hull, studies representations of Jamaican slave women, from 1770s-1830s. She focuses in particular on the debate about slave motherhood, slave relationships and the slave woman's body, and looks at he way in which the representations of slave women in these debates were linked to disciplinary practices of the plantations.