Is it time to ditch the term ‘black, Asian and minority ethnic’ (BAME)?Posted in Articles, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, Social Science, United Kingdom on 2016-03-15 20:46Z by Steven |
Is it time to ditch the term ‘black, Asian and minority ethnic’ (BAME)?
The Guardian
2015-05-22
Lola Okolosie, Joseph Harker, Leah Green, and Emma Dabiri
This week, former chairman of the commission for racial equality Trevor Phillips gave a speech in which he suggested that phrases such as black and minority ethnic (BME) and black, Asian and minority ethnic (Bame) have become outdated, existing purely “to tidy away the messy jumble of real human beings who share only one characteristic – that they don’t have white skin”. He said the acronyms could be divisive, and actually served to mask the disadvantages suffered by specific ethnic and cultural groups. Instead, Phillips suggested, we could potentially adopt terms commonly used in the US, such as “visible minorities” or “people of colour”. Here, four writers discuss the issue…
…Leah Green: ‘I don’t feel multiple heritage – I feel mixed race’…
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