Category: United Kingdom

  • Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen: review The Telegraph 2013-01-29 Judith Flanders Judith Flanders delves into Deborah Cohen’s ‘Family Secrets‘ As former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan put it so memorably at the Leveson Inquiry, “Privacy is for paedos”. In part, this was no more than a tabloid journalist using words carelessly. If he…

  • Don’t consign Mary Seacole to history, Michael Gove is urged The Independent London, England 2013-01-04 Kevin Rawlinson Petition launched to prevent Crimean War nurse being written out of school textbooks Leading black Britons have united to urge the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to abandons his plan to remove the country’s most celebrated black historical figure…

  • Racial endogamy in Great Britain: A cross-national perspective Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 3, Issue 2 (1980) pages 224-235 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.1980.9993301 Richard T. Schaefer, Professor of Sociology DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Introduction Large numbers of Blacks and Asians have migrated to Great Britain since World War II, and especially between 1955 and 1967. These ‘coloured’ people,…

  • Jackie Kay @ 5×15 5×15 2012-10-16 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Five speakers, fifteen minutes each. True stories of passion, obsession and adventure recounted live with just two rules: no scripts and only fifteen minutes each. The Red Dust Road Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh in…

  • Jackie Kay: a poetic imagining of post-racial (be)longing darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture ISSN: 2041-3254 Post-Racial Imaginaries [9.2] (2012-11-29) Katy Massey Jackie Kay is a prolific and well-loved writer who, though she has written in many forms, is best-known for her poetry. A mixed-race Scot who lives in the north of England, her…

  • On adoption, race does matter The Guardian 2012-12-21 Oona King Like Michael Gove, I used to believe a loving family was all. But I’ve heard from too many black adoptees who are struggling with their identity “My social worker is racist,” said a softly-spoken 10-year-old white boy. “She says I shouldn’t stay with my foster…

  • Ethnicity: what the census doesn’t tell us New Internationalist: People, ideans and action for global justice 2012-12-17 Amy Hall, Editorial Intern As the story goes, we are hurtling towards the anniversary of an important census, when Jesus’s family made its way to Bethlehem. Here in Britain, we have recently been analysing the results of our…

  • Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Identity Language in the British Press: A Case Study in Monitoring and Analysing Print Media Migration Observatory University of Oxford 2012-12-11 10 pages William Allen, Senior Researcher Scott Blinder, Senior Researcher Introduction and context Since July 2012, the Migration Observatory has been building the framework for a Media Monitoring Project.…

  • The Life Narrative of a Mixed-Race Man in Recovery from Addiction: A Case-Based Psychosocial Approach to Researching Drugs, ‘Race’ and Ethnicity Journal of Social Work Practice: Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community Published online: 2012-12-06 DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2012.745841 Alastair Roy, Senior Lecturer Psychosocial Research Unit, School of Social Work University of Central Lancashire This…

  • Britain is now a better place to grow up mixed race. But don’t celebrate yet The Guardian 2012-12-15 Lanre Bakare, The Guide’s Previews Editor Prejudices have receded significantly in the past 20 years, but a report out this week shows racist attitudes remain Growing up as a mixed race child, with a mother from Leeds…