Category: United Kingdom

  • Every mixed race marriage is building a better Britain The Independent 1999-03-04 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Lynchings, imprisonment and social exclusion will never stop individual s breaking racial barriers WE HAVE looked, for a good many days, at the poisonous worms of racism as the Lawrence inquiry team turned over the soil. The coverage of this event…

  • “A White Side of Black Britain” explores the racial consciousness of white women in the United Kingdom who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces new theoretical concepts in her description and analysis of…

  • Researching mixed race in education: perceptions, policies and practices Race Ethnicity and Education Volume 10, Issue 3 (September 2007) pages 345-362 DOI: 10.1080/13613320701503389 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Jo Haynes, Lecturer in Sociology University of Bristol Leon Tikly, Professor in Education and Deputy Director of…

  • Mixed ethnicity, identity and adoption: research, policy and practice Child & Family Social Work Volume 14, Issue 4 (November 2009) pages 431–439 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2009.00614.x Marsha Wood, Research Associate Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare at the School for Policy Studies University of Bristol, United Kingdom Mixed ethnicity children are over-represented in the care system…

  • In a society where race is a significant component of social identity and exerts an important influence on social relationships, the problems faced by couples who enter into ‘mixed’ marriages are especially difficult.

  • Immigration, Intermarriage, and the Challenges of Measuring Racial/Ethnic Identities American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1735-1737 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.90.11.1735 Mary C. Waters, M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology Harvard University This commentary reviews recent demographic trends in immigration and intermarriage that contribute to the complexity of measuring race and ethnicity.…

  • UK in 2051 to be ‘significantly more diverse’ University of Leeds 2010-07-13 The ethnic makeup of the UK will change dramatically over the next 40 years, with the country becoming far more ethnically diverse and geographically integrated, according to new projections. In a report published this week, researchers from the University of Leeds predict that…

  • The genealogical imagination: the inheritance of interracial identities The Sociological Review Volume 53, Issue 3 (August 2005) pages 476–494 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00562.x Katharine Tyler, Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity Department of Sociology University of Surrey The aim of this article is to examine ethnographically how ideas of descent, biology and culture mediate ideas about the inheritance…

  • Political issues involving the right of so-called ‘superior’ races to preserve privileges denied to other races on account of their so-called ‘inferiority’ are tending to darken counsel in the study of racial biology. Another form of political effort is a desire to demonstrate separateness of physical type, so that a subject race may claim autonomy.…

  • Hierarchies of whiteness in the geographies of empire: Thomas Thistlewood and the Barrets of Jamaica New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Volume 80, Numbers 1&2 (2006) pages 5-43 DOI: 10.1163/13822373-90002486 Cecilla A. Green, Associate Professor, Sociology Maxwell School of Syracuse University Shows how a racial solidarity between whites in colonial Jamaica during slavery…