Category: United Kingdom

  • First Person: ‘We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester’ This is Leicestershire Leicester Mercury 2013-03-27 Ben Ravilious I was delighted to learn the city mayor has given the green light to Leicester’s City of Culture bid. However, I already have nagging doubts about the direction this might be taking. It’s the flogging of…

  • Census 2011: Leicester ‘most ethnically diverse’ in region BBC News 2012-12-11 Leicester is one of the most diverse cities in the UK and the largest in the East Midlands, the latest census shows. Information from the 2011 survey shows there are 329,000 people living in the city, 24,000 more than in Nottingham, while 250,000 live…

  • Researching ethnicity, identity and ‘mixed-race’ Social Science Research: Discussing Methods and Resources The British Library 2012-11-19 This post discusses our latest Myths and Realities event on ethnicity, identity and ‘mixed-race’ and points readers in the direction of some relevant British Library collections. On the evening of 13 November we hosted our latest Myths and Realities…

  • Imperial Relations: Histories of family in the British Empire Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2013 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2013.0006 Esme Cleall, Lecturer in the History University of Sheffield Laura Ishiguro, Professor of History University of British Columbia Emily J. Manktelow King’s College London In early 1860, Mary Moody gave birth to…

  • Oona King: My family values The Guardian 2013-04-19 Roz Lewis The Labour peer talks about her parents, growing up as the only mixed-race child in her class, and being an adoptive parent I was born in Sheffield. My father, Preston King, is African American; my mother, Hazel, is a Jewish Geordie. I have a brother,…

  • Researching ‘Mixed-Race’ Male Experiences in Education in the United Kingdom Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Leeds 2012-12-20 Hi all, I’m a researcher from The University of Leeds (UK) based in the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism studies. I’m currently carrying out research into ‘mixed-race’ male experiences…

  • Why isn’t multiculturalism accepted in society nowadays? The Voice London, England 2013-01-25 Kamran Assadi Kamran Assadi on why diverse cultural identities in Britain should be embraced not questioned I BELIEVE society and the environment you live in can alter your opinions and the way you view life. Stereotypes can alter our thinking towards different religions,…

  • Of Mongrels and Men: The Shared Ideology of Anti-Miscegenation Law, Chinese Exclusion, and Contemporary American Neo-Nativism bepress Legal Series Working Paper 458 2005-02-16 Geoffrey A. Neri, Associate Miller Barondess, LLP Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION II. BIRTH OF THE “ABOMINATION”: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-MISCEGENATION LAW A. Origins and Early History B. Anti-Miscegenation Ideology 1. Monogenism…

  • Darling: New & Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books 2007 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 1 85224 777 0 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay’s part of the equation. Darling brings together into…

  • The Body Beautiful: A film by Ngozi Onwurah Women Make Movies England, 1991 23 minutes Color, VHS/16mm/DVD Order No. W99229 Melbourne Film Festival, Best Documentary This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image…