Category: United Kingdom

  • In Northern Ireland, a Wave of Immigrants Is Met With Fists The New York Times 2014-11-28 Douglas Dalby BELFAST, Northern Ireland — More than 16 years after the Good Friday peace deal brought real hope that Protestants and Roman Catholics could live together in relative harmony, Northern Ireland is being racked by another wave of…

  • Gillian Wearing redefines Birmingham for the 21st century The Telegraph London, United Kingdom 2014-10-31 Bernadette McNulty, Music Editor and Arts Writer Gillian Wearing’s A Real Birmingham Family Photo: Courtesy of Birmingham City Council, Arts Council England and Ikon With her statue of a mixed-race, single-parent family, Gillian Wearing has transformed Birmingham’s city centre, says Bernadette…

  • Mixed-race African-Carribean children at risk of falling behind in Reading primary schools Get Reading (Reading Post) Reading, United Kingdom 2014-11-13 Natasha Adkins, Health Reporter The gap between Reading’s under-performing ethnic groups in the Key Stage 2 national curriculum tests has widened to 10 per cent – an increase of three per cent on 2013’s results…

  • Perceptions of Mixed-Race: A Study Using an Implicit Index Journal of Black Psychology Published online before print: 2014-11-12 DOI: 10.1177/0095798414550248 Barlow Wright, Senior Lecturer in Psychology Brunel University London, England Michael Olyedemi Brunel University London, England Stanley O. Gaines Jr., Senior Lecturer in Psychology Brunel University London, England The psychology of race is in its…

  • Ormonde is a chapbook by the award-winning writer Hannah Lowe, which brings together a cycle of poems and unique personal and historical archives to chart the 1947 journey of SS Ormonde, the first post-WW2 ship (more than a year before SS Empire Windrush) to carry immigrants from Jamaica to the UK.

  • On The Cusp of Dual Identities #Dispatch: Afropean Everywhere All The Time 2014-11-10 Bani Amor Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist interested in issues of Afro-European identity. He won a Decibel Penguin Prize for a short story included in the ‘The Map of Me’; a Penguin books anthology about mixed-race identity. He…

  • Mixed race in the UK: am I the future face of this country? The Telegraph London, United Kingdom 2014-11-08 Laura Smith With ‘mixed race’ now the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the country, prejudice should be a thing of the past – but as one writer reveals, we’ve still got a long way to go Where…

  • “Legacy” is the true story of the Olorunda family’s struggle against racism and poverty during the Northern Ireland Troubles. In January 1980, Max Olorunda was killed by the IRA in a bomb attack. He left behind a wife and three small children. Legacy is the poignant story of what became of his family after his…

  • BEING a mixed-race black person… Max News: ‘View from the Bottom’ Magazine of Kevin Maxwell London, United Kingdom 2014-11-05 Kevin Maxwell I was talking with a black woman earlier, and we happened to get on to the subject of race – something close to my skin, literally. She said that a lot of mixed-race people…

  • An interview with Dr Chamion Caballero University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2014-10-22 Dr Chamion Caballero, a senior research fellow at London Southbank University, is speaking at the “Mixed race: the future of identity politics in Britain” debate on 25th October. Her research formed the basis of the BBC’s recent Mixed Britannia series, fronted by…