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  • We are not “belligerent,” “dark” or “bitter”

    We are not “belligerent,” “dark” or “bitter” Media Diversified 2016-11-29 Tele Ogunyemi, Co-founder Diaspora Philes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s recent article ‘Blend it like Britain’ is a masterpiece in how to simultaneously erase and fetishize people of colour. Published on 6th November 2016 in the Sunday Times Magazine to promote Amma Asante’s new film ‘A United Kingdom’, the…

  • Blend it like Britain

    Blend it like Britain The Sunday Times The Times of London 2016-11-06 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown United colours: one in 10 people in this country are in a mixed relationship MORDECHAI MEIRI An acclaimed new movie, A United Kingdom, is set to shine a spotlight on mixed-race relationships — and how British women changed society’s attitude towards…

  • Between two worlds

    Between two worlds The Guardian/The Observer 2003-04-05 Geraldine Bedell Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations – but many people are still hostile towards interracial couples. We asked some of them how their lives have been affected During the 1991 Gulf war, Richard Littlejohn wrote in the Sun that British women married to Iraqis…

  • Every mixed race marriage is building a better Britain

    Every mixed race marriage is building a better Britain The Independent 1999-03-04 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Lynchings, imprisonment and social exclusion will never stop individual s breaking racial barriers WE HAVE looked, for a good many days, at the poisonous worms of racism as the Lawrence inquiry team turned over the soil. The coverage of this event…

  • Arts and Mixedness [eConference]

    Arts and Mixedness [eConference] Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Runnymede is currently hosting an online debate on mixed-race identity and the arts. There is a comment from columnist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Mixed-Race Britain: Where Next? Playwright and poet Sabrina Mahfouz also writes about her thoughts on mixed-race identity: A Reflection on Mixedness.  There are also contributions from…

  • Mixed Race Britain: Where Next?

    Mixed Race Britain: Where Next? Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent Journalist My two books on mixed race Britons, Colour of Love (1992) and Mixed Feelings (2001) were among the first non-academic explorations of racial mixing in Britain. In the nine years between the two publications, awareness had grown of the fast rising number of…

  • Brave new world: The complicated side-effects of Britain’s mixed-race households

    Brave new world: The complicated side-effects of Britain’s mixed-race households The Independent (UK) 2009-08-22 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Bev is beautiful, with silky black skin and thick hair she ties in a bunch at the top, spurting like a fountain. At 15, her face reminds me of the young and feisty Winnie Mandela. Dressed in denim, she…

  • Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons

    Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons The Women’s Press 2001 336 pages 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 0704347067; ISBN-13: 978-0704347069 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s new book offers the sharpest and most informed insight yet on mixed-race Britain. Opening with an historical perspective, she traces up to the twenty-first century the…