{"id":29488,"date":"2013-03-12T20:48:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29488"},"modified":"2013-03-13T00:46:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T00:46:49","slug":"mixed-race-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29488","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kneeshawconsulting.com\/mixed-race-in-britain\/\" target=\"_self\">Mixed Race in Britain<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kneeshawconsulting.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kneeshaw Consulting<\/a><br \/>\n2013-03-11<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26902\" target=\"_blank\">2011 census<\/a> over a million people in the UK classed themselves as \u2018mixed race\u2019 \u2013 but for some, the label is unhelpful. The identity politics of the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jessica_Ennis\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Ennis<\/a> generation\u2019 was the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=29328\" target=\"_blank\">a workshop<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/wow.southbankcentre.co.uk\/events\" target=\"_blank\">Women of the World Festival<\/a> yesterday at London\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southbank Centre<\/a>. The latest data shows that 2.2% of the population are mixed race compared to 1.2% in 2001. Mixed-race is the fastest-growing minority in the UK. With this in mind four young British women of dual heritage talked about their experiences and debated whether having the box of \u2018mixed race\u2019 to tick offered them a sense of power or a meaningless classification, <strong>no better than ticking the \u2018other\u2019 box.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/wow.southbankcentre.co.uk\/artists\/emma-dabiri\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Dabiri<\/a>, an Irish-Nigerian visual sociologist and writer, argued that race does not provide a stable or static concept of identity, <strong>but is a social construct.<\/strong> She talked about historical racialisation of identity, <strong>and stressed that race mixing does not eliminate racism.<\/strong> She gave examples of the media using images of mixed race people to promote an idea of a hip, cool generation, <strong>when in fact the experience of mixed race people, in the wider context of race relations in modern Britain, is complex and brings many challenges&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kneeshawconsulting.com\/mixed-race-in-britain\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Race in Britain Kneeshaw Consulting 2013-03-11 In the 2011 census over a million people in the UK classed themselves as \u2018mixed race\u2019 \u2013 but for some, the label is unhelpful. The identity politics of the \u2018Jessica Ennis generation\u2019 was the subject of a workshop at the Women of the World Festival yesterday at London\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,8,394,10,25],"tags":[13842,13986,13841],"class_list":["post-29488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","category-women","tag-emma-dabiri","tag-kneeshaw-consulting","tag-women-of-the-world-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29488","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=29488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}