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  • At last, a home for black history

    At last, a home for black history The Guardian 2014-07-23 Paul Reid, Director Black Cultural Archives The launch of the Black Cultural Archives will show that our presence in the UK is measured in millennia, not decades I remember the time I got caned at school. It was the 1970s, and during a history lesson…

  • Colour-blind love is the mark of a healthy and dynamic society

    Colour-blind love is the mark of a healthy and dynamic society The Guardian/The Observer 2014-07-05 Anushka Asthana, Political Correspondent Sky News In Britain, there are ever more ‘mixed’ marriages such as mine. And society is enriched by this trend A friend tells me her mother is “fully Chinese”, while her father is slightly Spanish, a…

  • Thanks, Belle, it’s nice to see a face like mine on screen

    Thanks, Belle, it’s nice to see a face like mine on screen The Guardian (The Observer) 2014-06-07 Ashley Clark In giving top billing to Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the film Belle makes a real contribution to raising awareness of the mixed-race experience My heart leaps whenever I see the poster for Amma Asante’s new film, Belle, high…

  • On race, the US is not as improved as some would have us believe

    On race, the US is not as improved as some would have us believe The Guardian 2014-04-20 Gary Younge Despite the legacy of civil rights, some doors remain firmly closed. And across the US, schools are resegregating At the march on Washington in August 1963, where Martin Luther King made his “I have a dream…

  • Black history month is a token tribute, but Afro-Latinos don’t even have that

    Black history month is a token tribute, but Afro-Latinos don’t even have that The Guardian 2014-02-26 Icess Fernandez Rojas The US has a designated celebration for about every group, but if you’re of mixed heritage, you’re on your own I cringe every time February rolls around. For me, black history month has become predictable. First,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Why did the BBC cast a mixed-race Porthos in The Musketeers?

    Why did the BBC cast a mixed-race Porthos in The Musketeers? The Guardian 2014-01-28 Stuart Jeffries, Feature Writer and Columnist Certain viewers are non-plussed by the casting of a musketeer of colour, but surely blind casting is preferable to an historical whitewash Studs in leather? Check. Swordplay? Check. Buckled swash? Check. Medieval cleavages? Check. Over-complicated…

  • Jackie Kay on reading out an anti-racist poem at a football ground

    Jackie Kay on reading out an anti-racist poem at a football ground The Guardian 2012-10-26 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Jackie Kay readies for an experiment – being a poet on Sheffield United’s pitch and helping to kick racism out of football On Monday I’m going to be pitching my anti-racist poem…

  • The trouble with ‘passing’ for another race/sexuality/religion…

    The trouble with ‘passing’ for another race/sexuality/religion… The Guardian 2014-01-02 Koa Beck Brooklyn, New York The broadening of the definition historically used for those of mixed-race who ‘passed’ as white exposes the power of privilege “Racial passing“, or “passing”, was originally coined to define the experience of mixed raced individuals, particularly in America, who were…