{"id":21502,"date":"2012-03-16T03:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T03:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21502"},"modified":"2015-07-25T03:04:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T03:04:25","slug":"making-sense-of-%e2%80%98mixture%e2%80%99-states-and-the-classification-of-%e2%80%98mixed%e2%80%99-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21502","title":{"rendered":"Making sense of \u2018mixture\u2019: states and the classification of \u2018mixed\u2019 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making sense of \u2018mixture\u2019: states and the classification of \u2018mixed\u2019 people<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a>
\nAvaiable online: 2012-02-01
\n9 pages
\nDOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2012.648650<\/a><\/p>\n

Miri Song<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of Kent, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

Diversity and the growth of ‘mixed’ people<\/strong><\/p>\n

In many Western multi-ethnic societies, and increasingly in non-Western societies, ‘super-diversity’ has emerged as a major demographic trend in various metropolitan centres (Vertovec 2007). Contemporary Britain is marked by both super-diversity in urban areas and ‘old’ racial and ethnic cleavages which reflect continuing social divides in many parts of the country. As a result, there is considerable flux in the meanings and significance of race and racial difference across a variety of contexts. Such growing diversity is due to continue, based upon continuing flows of migration, increased interracial and interethnic partnering, and the growth of ‘mixed’ individuals. While I focus on the case of Britain, much of this editorial, I would argue, will be of relevance to what many other multi-ethnic societies will encounter in the coming years.<\/p>\n

Notably. while only 2 per cent of marriages are ‘inlerethnic’ in Britain (Office for National Statistics 2005), such marriages are expected to grow rapidly. Black-white partnering is the most common in Britain the direct opposite of the US. where black\/white partnering is least common. <\/strong>In a recent analysis of the Labour Force Survey<\/a>, nearly half of black Caribbean men in a partnership were partnered (married or cohabiting) with someone of a different ethnic group (and about one third of black Caribbean women), while 39 per cent of Chinese women in partnerships had a partner from a different ethnic group (Platt 2009<\/a>). There are now more children in Britain (under age 5) with one black and one white parent than children with two black parents (Owen 2007)…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Making sense of \u2018mixture\u2019: states and the classification of \u2018mixed\u2019 people Ethnic and Racial Studies Avaiable online: 2012-02-01 9 pages DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2012.648650 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, United Kingdom Diversity and the growth of ‘mixed’ people In many Western multi-ethnic societies, and increasingly in non-Western societies, ‘super-diversity’ has emerged as a major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,394,10],"tags":[461,515],"class_list":["post-21502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-miri-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502","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=21502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41934,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21502\/revisions\/41934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}