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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 & 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 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 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 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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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 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 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 (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 (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 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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