{"id":2134,"date":"2009-10-16T02:11:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T02:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2012-02-22T05:41:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T05:41:23","slug":"mixed-heritage-%e2%80%93-identity-policy-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2134","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Heritage \u2013 Identity, Policy and Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/uploads\/file\/Perspectives-MixedHeritageFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Heritage \u2013 Identity, Policy and Practice<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\" target=\"_blank\">Runnymede Trust<\/a><br \/>\nISBN-10: 0-9548389-6-3<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-0-9548389-6-6<br \/>\nEAN: 9780954838966<br \/>\n40 pages<br \/>\nSeptember 2007<\/p>\n<p>Edited by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/about\/the-team.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Mai Sims<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although they are often invisible in debates on race and ethnicity, the 2001 census reveals that the \u2018Mixed&#8217; population is the third largest ethnic category in the UK, with predictions that it will become the single largest minority group recognised by the Census by the end of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer months we have developed our thinking on this area of study through a seminars, roundtables, and conferences by partnering with the CRE, CLG, and London South Bank&#8217;s Families and Social Capital Research Group. Through this partnership we have established the following series of activity that forms that basis for future work on mixed heritage, which seeks to challenge the prevalent understandings and assumptions of the people who are thought to comprise of this group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foreword &#8211; Rob Berkeley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Statistics: The Mixed Category in Census 2001 &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ioe.ac.uk\/staff\/DOCL_11.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Owen<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Diversity of \u2018the\u2019 Mixed Race Population in Britain &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/song.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miri Song<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gendering Mixed-Race, Deconstructing Mixedness &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/sociology\/whoswho\/academic\/ali.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Suki Ali<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thai-British Families: Towards a Deeper Understanding of \u2018Mixedness\u2019 &#8212; Jessica Mai Sims<\/li>\n<li>Meeting the Educational Needs of Mixed Heritage Pupils: Challenges for Policy and Practice &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/education\/people\/leon-tikly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leon Tikly<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mixed Heritage: Perspectives on Health and Welfare &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmu.ac.uk\/faculties\/hls\/research\/msrc\/mjohnson.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Mark R. D. Johnson<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Adoption and Fostering Issues: \u2018Judgement of Solomon\u2019 &#8212; Savita de Sousa &amp; John Simmonds<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Mixed\u2019 Families: Assumptions and New Approaches &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsbu.ac.uk\/families\/staff.shtml#chamion\" target=\"_blank\">Chamion Caballero<\/a><\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s Time for Foundation &#8212; Sharron Hall<\/li>\n<li>I loathe the term \u2018mixed race\u2019\u2026 &#8212; Linda Bellos<\/li>\n<li>People in Harmony &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swan.ac.uk\/staff\/academic\/HealthSciences\/olumideg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jill Olumide<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Biographical Information on Contributors<\/li>\n<li>Bibliography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire document <a href=\"=&quot;http:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/uploads\/file\/Perspectives-MixedHeritageFinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Heritage \u2013 Identity, Policy and Practice Runnymede Trust ISBN-10: 0-9548389-6-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-9548389-6-6 EAN: 9780954838966 40 pages September 2007 Edited by Jessica Mai Sims Although they are often invisible in debates on race and ethnicity, the 2001 census reveals that the \u2018Mixed&#8217; population is the third largest ethnic category in the UK, with predictions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,414,8,681,394,10],"tags":[62,533,1191,541,536,538,540,537,515,119,534,542,535,539,457,543],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-family","category-media-archive","category-reports","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-chamion-caballero","tag-charlie-owen","tag-gillian-olumide","tag-jill-olumide","tag-john-simmonds","tag-leon-tikly","tag-linda-bellos","tag-mark-r-d-johnson","tag-miri-song","tag-people-in-harmony","tag-rob-berkeley","tag-runnymede-trust","tag-savita-de-sousa","tag-sharron-hall","tag-suki-ali","tag-thai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","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=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}