{"id":24144,"date":"2012-07-04T01:53:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T01:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24144"},"modified":"2015-07-25T03:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T03:03:57","slug":"the-creation-and-intepretation-of-%e2%80%98mixed%e2%80%99-categories-in-britain-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24144","title":{"rendered":"The creation and intepretation of \u2018mixed\u2019 categories in Britain today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/site\/2012\/07\/02\/the-creation-and-intepretation-of-mixed-categories-in-britain-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">The creation and intepretation of \u2018mixed\u2019 categories in Britain today<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/site\/\" target=\"_blank\">darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture<\/a><br \/>\nISSN 2041-3254<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/site\/category\/issues\/9-1-post-racial-imaginaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Post-Racial Imaginaries [9.1]<\/a> (2012-07-02)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/s\/song-miri.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miri Song<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The growth and recognition of \u2018Mixed\u2019 in Britain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to imagine a society (such as Britain) in which ethnic and racial categories, and the powerful imagery and ideologies associated with notions of ethnic and racial difference, do not exist. The population of the UK is becoming increasingly diverse in terms of ethnicity, race, religion, and national identity. While not new, one major demographic development is the significant growth of \u2018mixed race\u2019 people in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying the growth in mixed relationships and people is the increased social and media attention they have received in recent years. For instance, mixed celebrities are impossible to avoid in various contemporary British (and other) media.Furthermore, the BBC has just shown a whole series of programs called \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=16093\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Britannia<\/a>\u2019, in which we learn, among other things, that being mixed was by no means a new phenomenon in the earlier parts of the 20th century, whether in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiger_Bay\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Bay<\/a>, or in the docks of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liverpool\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a>. Various analysts have argued that, in many parts of contemporary, metropolitan Britain, being mixed, and the everyday interactions between disparate groups, is absolutely ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>This growth of mixed people has engendered the creation and institutionalization of new ethnic and racial categories by official bodies, such as the Office of National Statistics (ONS). For the first time, the growth in mixed people was officially recognized by the inclusion of \u2018Mixed\u2019 categories in the 2001 England and Wales census, in which about 677,000 people (or about 1.2% of the population) were identified as mixed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/site\/2012\/07\/02\/the-creation-and-intepretation-of-mixed-categories-in-britain-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creation and intepretation of \u2018mixed\u2019 categories in Britain today darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture ISSN 2041-3254 Post-Racial Imaginaries [9.1] (2012-07-02) Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent The growth and recognition of \u2018Mixed\u2019 in Britain It is difficult to imagine a society (such as Britain) in which ethnic and racial categories, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,394,10],"tags":[11167,11166,515],"class_list":["post-24144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-darkmatter","tag-darkmatter-in-the-ruins-of-imperial-culture","tag-miri-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24144","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=24144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41933,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24144\/revisions\/41933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}