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  • What it’s like growing up mixed race in Scotland

    Aleisha details her experience of growing up as a mixed-race person in Glasgow.

  • Thinking in Colour: A BBC Radio Collection of Documentaries on Race, Society and Black History

    Gary Younge explores race, society and Black history in these five fascinating documentaries

  • BBC releases first-look images of My Name Is Leon

    The BBC has released images for the upcoming adaptation of Kit de Waal’s award-winning novel, “My Name Is Leon.”

  • Thinking In Colour

    Thinking In Colour BBC Radio 4 British Broadcasting Corporation 2021-05-10 Gary Younge, Professor of Sociology Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom Caitlin Smith, Producer Tony Phillips, Executive Producer Bliss Broyard and her father Anatole Broyard (photo: Sandy Broyard) Passing is a term that originally referred to light skinned African Americans who decided to live their lives…

  • Hungary’s first black MP aims to ‘destroy prejudice’

    Hungary has a reputation for anti-immigration politics, but a young black liberal MP wants to revamp the country’s image.

  • Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century

    This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and influential public debate on the meanings and implications of intimately crossing racial boundaries.

  • Britain: More mixed than we thought

    Britain: More mixed than we thought British Broadcasting Corporation 2011-10-07 Mark Easton, Home editor New figures seen by the BBC suggest our mixed race population may be twice the size of official figures—numbering up to two million people Looking at some new figures on ethnic minorities in Britain the other day, I glanced at a…

  • ‘Mixed Britannia’ – research by LSBU’s Dr Caballero informs BBC series

    ‘Mixed Britannia’ – research by LSBU’s Dr Caballero informs BBC series London South Bank University 2011-10-05 Research conducted by Dr Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow in London South Bank University’s Families and Social Capital Research Group, has formed the foundations of a BBC2 series starting on Thursday 6 October. Dr Caballero was an academic consultant…

  • Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review

    Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review The Telegraph 2011-10-06 Josephine Moulds Josephine Moulds reviews the first episode of BBC Two’s documentary Mixed Britannia, presented by George Alagiah. The first part of an ambitious documentary series, Mixed Britannia, ran last night, continuing BBC Two’s season about mixed-race life in the UK. Over the course of three programmes,…

  • Beware this new mixed-race love-in

    Beware this new mixed-race love-in The Guardian 2011-10-04 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor I’m glad that attitudes to mixed-race people have changed. But does it all mask a subtler kind of racism? Why does everyone want to be like me? According to scientific research (yes, really) I’m not only more beautiful than, but also biologically…