{"id":26999,"date":"2012-12-19T05:12:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T05:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26999"},"modified":"2012-12-19T05:12:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T05:12:35","slug":"ethnicity-what-the-census-doesn%e2%80%99t-tell-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26999","title":{"rendered":"Ethnicity: what the census doesn\u2019t tell us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newint.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/census-2011-ethnicity-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnicity: what the census doesn\u2019t tell us<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newint.org\" target=\"_blank\">New Internationalist: People, ideans and action for global justice<\/a><br \/>\n2012-12-17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amy Hall<\/strong>, Editorial Intern<\/p>\n<p>As the story goes, we are hurtling towards the anniversary of an important census, when Jesus\u2019s family made its way to Bethlehem. Here in Britain, we have recently been analysing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26902\" target=\"_blank\">results of our own 2011 survey<\/a> \u2013 completed without most of us having to undertake an arduous journey (on donkey) back to our home towns&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have had countless conversations with curious strangers who ask me: \u2018Where are you from?\u2019 I would normally answer Cornwall, England or Britain. I often receive a sympathetic smile, or a mildly infuriated expression, and then a \u2018yes, but where are you actually from?\u2019 Short of producing a copy of my birth certificate, it can be hard to know how to reply.<\/p>\n<p>The more accusatory their tone, the more they actually mean \u2018why are you not white?\u2019 After all, if I were, my initial reply would have been enough. So I explain that my dad was born in Jamaica, my mother in England.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 census results have been reported as evidence of \u2018the changing face of Britain\u2019, celebrating the harmony of the production of children like myself \u2013 the \u2018Jessica Ennis generation\u2019. There are now over a million people ticking the \u2018mixed\/multiple ethnic groups\u2019 box.<\/p>\n<p>But nowhere in the mixed section (which wasn\u2019t even added until 2001) is \u2018British\u2019 mentioned, despite the presence of mixed-race people being almost as old as the country itself. We are told that immigrants and their descendants need to identify more closely with Britain, but even when they do it is not reflected in monitoring forms like the census. Many mixed-race people can follow multiple cultures and religions, speak multiple languages and support multiple teams in the World Cup and while still feeling British&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newint.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/census-2011-ethnicity-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnicity: what the census doesn\u2019t tell us New Internationalist: People, ideans and action for global justice 2012-12-17 Amy Hall, Editorial Intern As the story goes, we are hurtling towards the anniversary of an important census, when Jesus\u2019s family made its way to Bethlehem. Here in Britain, we have recently been analysing the results of our [&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":[13115,13114],"class_list":["post-26999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-amy-hall","tag-new-internationalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26999","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=26999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}