{"id":26980,"date":"2012-12-17T06:46:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T06:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26980"},"modified":"2012-12-17T06:46:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T06:46:35","slug":"although-mixed-marriages-and-mixed-racial-identities-are-also-rising-rapidly-in-the-united-states-they-are-still-infrequent-by-british-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26980","title":{"rendered":"Although mixed marriages, and mixed racial identities, are also rising rapidly in the United States, they are still infrequent by British standards&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Although mixed marriages, and mixed racial identities, are also rising rapidly in the United States, they are still infrequent by British standards: around 10% of African Americans are in mixed marriages, compared to \u201cover 25%\u201d for black Caribbean Britons and \u201cover 40%\u201d for British born black Caribbeans. Traditionally, American racial identity has been defined by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cone drop\u201d rule<\/a>: those with any black heritage are seen by others\u2014and come to see themselves\u2014as black. Some of America\u2019s most prominent black figures fit this pattern: both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Powell\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Powell<\/a> are children of mixed relationships between a black immigrant husband and a white American wife. Both have defined themselves as black, and married black partners. This may be changing\u2014self-identification as mixed is rising in the United States, whose Census bureau also now officially acknowledges it\u2014but contrary to popular perceptions America lags behind Britain in rates of mixing and, arguably, in acknowledging and discussing mixed identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rob Ford, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26932\" target=\"_blank\">The melting pot generation: How Britain became more relaxed on race<\/a>,\u201d <em>Brisith Future<\/em>, (December 12, 2012): 6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishfuture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-melting-pot-generation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.britishfuture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/The-melting-pot-generation.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although mixed marriages, and mixed racial identities, are also rising rapidly in the United States, they are still infrequent by British standards: around 10% of African Americans are in mixed marriages, compared to \u201cover 25%\u201d for black Caribbean Britons and \u201cover 40%\u201d for British born black Caribbeans. Traditionally, American racial identity has been defined by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13103,13077],"class_list":["post-26980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-brisith-future","tag-rob-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980","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=26980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}