{"id":10343,"date":"2010-11-30T20:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2015-07-25T03:05:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T03:05:59","slug":"university-of-kent-research-reveals-diversity-of-multiracial-identification-and-experience-in-britain-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10343","title":{"rendered":"University of Kent research reveals diversity of multiracial identification and experience in Britain today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/news\/articles\/2010_11_04_multiracial.html\" target=\"_blank\">University of Kent research reveals diversity of multiracial identification and experience in Britain today<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Kent<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:pressoffice@kent.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Press Office<br \/>\n<\/a>2010-11-04<\/p>\n<p>Research from the University has revealed that while there is evidence of a growing consciousness and interest in mixed race identities among 18-25 year olds in Britain today,<strong> Britain cannot yet speak of a coherent or unified mixed group or experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The research, which was conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/CHSS\/about\/staff\/aspinall.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Aspinall<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/s\/song-miri.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Miri Song<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/CHSS\/about\/staff\/hashem.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Ferhana Hashem<\/a> from the University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research<\/a> (SSPSSR), set out to explore the ways in which mixed race young adults thought about and understood their ethnic and racial identifications.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Key Findings Include:&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;In a \u2018forced choice\u2019 question (where respondents were forced to choose the group, or \u2018race\u2019, which was most important to them), many were not able (or unwilling) to prioritise only one group. This suggests the growing prominence of \u2018mixed\u2019, hybrid identification.<strong> Furthermore, some respondents who refused to choose claimed to transcend racial identification and categorization completely.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In general, the identity options perceived and experienced by Black\/White mixed young people were more constrained than those of other mixes involving \u2018White\u2019, such as \u2018Chinese and White\u2019 , \u2018South Asian and White\u2019, and \u2018Arab and White\u2019. Many, though not all, part-Black respondents reported that they were seen as monoracially Black. This finding is interesting, since Britain has never had a codified \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>\u2019 (in which anyone with a known Black ancestor was known as Black) as in the USA. The differences were statistically significant&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/news\/articles\/2010_11_04_multiracial.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Kent research reveals diversity of multiracial identification and experience in Britain today University of Kent Press Office 2010-11-04 Research from the University has revealed that while there is evidence of a growing consciousness and interest in mixed race identities among 18-25 year olds in Britain today, Britain cannot yet speak of a coherent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,10],"tags":[3134,515,61,1877,4554],"class_list":["post-10343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-ferhana-hashem","tag-miri-song","tag-peter-aspinall","tag-peter-j-aspinall","tag-university-of-kent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41937,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions\/41937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}