Mixed-race Britain: Proud of both sides and here to stayPosted in Articles, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Social Science, United Kingdom on 2012-12-11 23:48Z by Steven |
Mixed-race Britain: Proud of both sides and here to stay
The Daily Mail
Lindsay John’s blog
2012-12-11
Lindsay John
According to data from last year’s census, revealed today, Britain’s mixed-race population probably now exceeds one million. Moreover, the mixed-race population is among the fastest growing in Britain and is already the largest ethnic group among under-16s.
Introduced onto the census form in 2001, the mixed-race category was at the time somewhat controversial, seen as a ‘divide and conquer’ mechanism by old school, anti-racism campaigners, but is now widely accepted as a very useful and apposite tool for reflecting and describing the manifold complexities of race and personal identity.
What do these intriguing census results say about Britain today, the way we now perceive ethnicity and the progress we have made as a nation with regards to race? As a person of mixed race myself (with a Coloured South African father, a white English mother and proud of both sides), I feel I am in a fairly good position to comment…
Read the entire article here.