Mixed Race Studies

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  • Being Mixed Race

    Being Mixed Race Women of the World Festival 2014 Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, London Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall Saturday, 2014-03-08, 13:30-15:00Z What is being ‘mixed race’? Is there such a thing as a mixed-race identity? In the 2011 census, over a million people in the UK ticked the ‘mixed race’ box—double…

  • The Racial Pecking Order in British Theatre and TV

    The Racial Pecking Order in British Theatre and TV Media Diversified: Tackling the lack of diversity in UK media and the ubiquity of whiteness 2014-02-28 Daniel York I’ve been reading a book recently by the American sociologist David T. Wellman with the frankly terrifying title Portraits Of White Racism. I say terrifying because it conjures…

  • Featured Writer: Daniel York

    Featured Writer: Daniel York Banana Writers​: Where Asian writers get unpeeled 2013-10-11 P. P. Wong Daniel York is a successful scriptwriter, director and actor who is passionate about championing equal rights for creative East Asians. Born of mixed Chinese and English parentage, the talented British writer was selected as part of the Royal Court’s Unheard Voices initiative for emerging East Asian writers.…

  • Mixed-race children ‘are being failed’ in treatment of mental health problems

    Mixed-race children ‘are being failed’ in treatment of mental health problems The Guardian 2014-02-22 Tracy McVeigh, Chief Reporter The Observer The fastest growing ethnic group in Britain is still being treated as if it is only integrated into black culture, says report Children of mixed race are at greater risk of suffering from mental health…

  • Mixed Experiences: Growing up mixed race – mental health and well-being

    Mixed Experiences: Growing up mixed race – mental health and well-being Jessica Kingsley Publishers February 2014 96 pages 210mm x 148mm / 8.5in x 5.5in Paperback ISBN: 9781909391154 Dinah Morley and Cathy Street Mixed race is the fastest growing population group of children and young people in England and Wales. The diversity of the mixed…

  • Who intermarries in Britain? Explaining ethnic diversity in intermarriage patterns

    Who intermarries in Britain? Explaining ethnic diversity in intermarriage patterns The British Journal of Sociology Volume 61, Issue 2 (June 2010) pages 275–305 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2010.01313.x Raya Muttarak, Visiting Fellow Department of Political and Social Sciences European University Institute Anthony Heath, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College University of Oxford This paper investigates…

  • Stuart Hall obituary

    Stuart Hall obituary The Guardian 2014-02-10 David Morley and Bill Schwarz Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review When the writer and academic Richard Hoggart founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in 1964, he invited Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, to join him as…

  • Stuart Hall – obituary

    Stuart Hall – obituary The Telegraph London, England 2014-02-11 Stuart Hall was a cultural theorist who coined the term ‘Thatcherism’ and profoundly influenced New Labour Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, came to Britain from his native Jamaica in 1951 and established himself as a leading cultural theorist and as a hero of the…

  • Into the melting pot

    Into the melting pot The Economist 2014-02-08 The rapid rise of mixed-race Britain is changing neighbourhoods—and perplexing the authorities ZADIE SMITH, a novelist born to a black Jamaican mother and a white British father, recently recalled that when she was growing up in Willesden Green, a London district with a large immigrant population, “nothing could…

  • Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics

    In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared to confirm the finding, which was then applied…