Category: United Kingdom

  • Ethnicity and family – Relationships within and between ethnic groups: An analysis using the Labour Force Survey Equality and Human Rights Commission 2009-01-19 Lucinda Platt, Professor of Sociology Institute of Education, University of London This paper outlines the ethnic composition of families in Britain today using the Labour Force Survey household data. That is, it…

  • Mixed Race Organisations in the UK: Joint Statement 2009-09-13 People in Harmony in consultation with: Multiple Heritage Project MixTogether Sputnik Inheritance Project Planet Rainbow Project MOSAIC Black and Mixed Parentage Family Group Intermix Starlight Black Child Mixed Heritage Group As a coalition of mixed race organisations we seek to advance the social well being of…

  • Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report) Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent at Canterbury July 2006 Peter Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana…

  • The Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports or simply, The Fletcher Report of 1930 was a report sponsored by the Liverpool [England] Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children in December, 1927.  The report, released on 1930-06-16, was written by Muriel E. Fletcher a 1920 graduate of the University of…

  • Experiences of racism and the changing nature of white privilege among lone white mothers of mixed-parentage children in the UK Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 33, Issue 2 (February 2010) pages 176-194 DOI: 10.1080/01419870903023652 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology Royal Holloway, University of London In a context where mixed relationships…

  • Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.

  • Hybrid Border-Crossers? Towards a Radical Socialisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 35, Issue 1 (January 2009) pages 115 – 132 DOI: 10.1080/13691830802489275 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada The celebration of ‘mixed race’ as the model ‘transgressive’ (post-)identity…

  • “Who Am I? Mental Health & Dual Heritage” Conference Report At GMCVO, ST. THOMAS CENTRE Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FZ This event was held on 2009-06-10, from 08:00Z to 13:00Z Programme: 08:00Z Registration 08:30Z Mixed Heritage Identities; the issues and challenges Bradley Lincoln Multiple Heritage Project Manchester 09:00Z Women; mixed heritage and mental health Lindsey…

  • Half-caste  is a term used to describe people of mixed race or ethnicity. Caste comes from the Latin castus, meaning pure, and the derivative Portuguese and Spanish casta, meaning race. The term originates from the Indian caste system, where a person of ‘lesser’ or half-caste would be deemed to be of a ‘lower class’. While…

  • Mixed-up kids? Race, identity and social order Russell House Publishing December 2008 184 pages ISBN: 9781905541386 Tina G. Patel University of Salford Transracial adoptees, children of mixed parentage, children of settled immigrant families… more and more children are growing up in mixed-race families and social environments. And there is increasing variety within this mixed-ness. Yet…