{"id":26914,"date":"2012-12-11T23:48:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T23:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26914"},"modified":"2012-12-11T23:48:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T23:48:50","slug":"mixed-race-britain-proud-of-both-sides-and-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26914","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race Britain: Proud of both sides and here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/johnsblog.dailymail.co.uk\/2012\/12\/mixed-race-britain-proud-of-both-sides-and-here-to-stay.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-race Britain: Proud of both sides and here to stay<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Mail<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/johnsblog.dailymail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay John&#8217;s blog<\/a><br \/>\n2012-12-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lindsay John<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to data from last year\u2019s census, revealed today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26902\" target=\"_blank\">Britain\u2019s mixed-race population probably now exceeds one million<\/a>. Moreover, the mixed-race population is among the fastest growing in Britain and is already the largest ethnic group among under-16s.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced onto the census form in 2001, the mixed-race category was at the time somewhat controversial, seen as a &#8216;divide and conquer&#8217; mechanism by old school, anti-racism campaigners, but is now widely accepted as a very useful and apposite tool for reflecting and describing the manifold complexities of race and personal identity.<\/p>\n<p>What do these intriguing census results say about Britain today, the way we now perceive ethnicity and the progress we have made as a nation with regards to race? As a person of mixed race myself (with a Coloured South African father, a white English mother and proud of both sides), I feel I am in a fairly good position to comment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/johnsblog.dailymail.co.uk\/2012\/12\/mixed-race-britain-proud-of-both-sides-and-here-to-stay.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-race Britain: Proud of both sides and here to stay The Daily Mail Lindsay John&#8217;s blog 2012-12-11 Lindsay John According to data from last year\u2019s census, revealed today, Britain\u2019s mixed-race population probably now exceeds one million. Moreover, the mixed-race population is among the fastest growing in Britain and is already the largest ethnic group among [&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":[9810,13068,13069,3050],"class_list":["post-26914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-daily-mail","tag-lindsay-john","tag-lindsay-johns-blog","tag-the-daily-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914","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=26914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}