Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Shamit Saggar

Into the melting pot

2014-02-11

Into the melting pot The Economist 2014-02-08 The rapid rise of mixed-race Britain is changing neighbourhoods—and perplexing the authorities ZADIE SMITH, a novelist born to a black Jamaican mother and a white British father, recently recalled that when she was growing up in Willesden Green, a London district with a large immigrant population, “nothing could…
“Mongrel nation”: How is the face of Britain seen now?

2012-12-13

“Mongrel nation”: How is the face of Britain seen now? British Future 2012-12-10 Shamit Saggar, Professor of Political Science University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Twenty years ago Time magazine put a composite photograph on its front cover. It was generated by an IBM 486 computer and fused together the phenotypical features of the world’s…