{"id":12712,"date":"2011-03-18T04:04:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12712"},"modified":"2011-03-18T04:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:07:00","slug":"love-in-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12712","title":{"rendered":"Love in black and white"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love in black and white<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Electronic Precinct<\/a>
\nUniversity of Liverpool<\/a>
\nAugust 1998<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMuriel Fletcher and Margaret Todd, (second and third from left, middle row) with students and staff of the School of Social Science 1926-27
\nSource: University of Liverpool<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Two students who graduated from this University in 1927 play important roles in the film \u2018Love in black and white\u2019, which will be broadcast as part of the \u201cWindrush<\/a>\u201d series. One graduate, Muriel Fletcher, wrote a report about mixed marriages in dockland Liverpool which laid the foundation for 50 years of stigmatisation<\/a>. The other, Margaret Todd<\/a>, later Simey, spent time in the Caribbean<\/a> and, on her return to Liverpool<\/a>, became a champion of the black community.<\/p>\n

The programme was made by Liverpool producer\/director Bea Freeman, who is herself a Liverpool graduate and one of the University’s first \u2018Second Chance\u2019 students.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fifty years ago, the Fletcher report<\/a> stigmatised white women who married black men. Now, white women who have been happily married to black men for half a century get their chance to tell their story. It is a story of the stigma and discrimination which they, their partners and their children suffered\u2019<\/strong>, she said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love in black and white Electronic Precinct University of Liverpool August 1998 Muriel Fletcher and Margaret Todd, (second and third from left, middle row) with students and staff of the School of Social Science 1926-27 Source: University of Liverpool Two students who graduated from this University in 1927 play important roles in the film \u2018Love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,10],"tags":[207,5712,5711,219,205],"class_list":["post-12712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-liverpool","tag-margaret-simey","tag-margaret-todd","tag-muriel-e-fletcher","tag-muriel-fletcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712","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=12712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}