{"id":3189,"date":"2009-11-14T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2009-11-14T20:41:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T20:41:33","slug":"new-book-highlights-the-needs-of-mixed-parentage-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3189","title":{"rendered":"New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsbu.ac.uk\/news-php\/newsarchive.php?newsid=215\" target=\"_blank\">New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsbu.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">London South Bank University<\/a><br \/>\nNews<br \/>\n2005-06-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Toyin Okitikpi with his challenging new book [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3172\" target=\"_blank\">Working with Children of Mixed Parentage<\/a><\/em>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Proportionately a higher percentage of mixed parentage children end up in care and in Britain we only statistically classify mixed parentage for children where one parent is black and the other white. <strong>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3172\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> argues this totally misses the children who for example may be of Asian Chinese descent and when it comes to documents such as the National Census the best we can do is offer them the classification of \u2018other\u2019 and ask them to specify.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toyin explains that there are problems with this form of pigeon holing. He explains, \u201cWe are expecting these children to be forced into one classification or another and there is confusion about the children\u2019s identity and their sense of self&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsbu.ac.uk\/news-php\/newsarchive.php?newsid=215\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New book highlights the needs of Mixed Parentage children London South Bank University News 2005-06-02 Dr Toyin Okitikpi with his challenging new book [Working with Children of Mixed Parentage] Proportionately a higher percentage of mixed parentage children end up in care and in Britain we only statistically classify mixed parentage for children where one parent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,26,394,10],"tags":[1183,1178],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-london-south-bank-university","tag-toyin-okitikpi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","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=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}