{"id":3478,"date":"2009-11-27T01:59:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T01:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2009-11-27T02:42:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T02:42:32","slug":"the-alchemy-of-mixed-race-review-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3478","title":{"rendered":"The Alchemy of Mixed Race &#8211; Review Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethnopolitics.org\/ethnopolitics\/archive\/volume_II\/issue_3-4\/mansaray.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Alchemy of Mixed Race &#8211; Review Essay<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Global Review of Ethnopolitics<br \/>\nVol. 2, no. 3-4<br \/>\nMarch\/June 2003<br \/>\npages 100-106<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ayo Mansaray<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>University of Middlesex, UK<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race<br \/>\n<\/em>Jill Olumide<br \/>\nPluto Press, 2001<br \/>\npp. 224 (including: foreword, notes, bibliography, index, appendix)<\/p>\n<p><em>Rethinking \u201cMixed Race\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nParker &amp; Song (eds)<br \/>\nPluto Press, 2001<br \/>\npp. 208 (including: foreword, notes, bibliography, index, appendix)<\/p>\n<p>We are, in Britain, witnessing high levels of co-habitation, marriages and romantic liaisons between different ethnic and racial groups (Alibhai-Brown 2001: 78).\u00a0 According to the latest census statistics for England and Wales, 660,000 people described themselves as being of mixed ethnicity. The largest mixed group is white and black Caribbean &#8211; 237,000, of whom 137,000 (57.5%) are aged 15 and under (ONS 2003).\u00a0 Extrapolating from this data, the number of Britons involved in mixed raced situations is much greater than this number, and growing. The mixed race\/ethnicity population is now the third largest minority in the UK, 14.6% of the total ethnic minority population, second to the Indian and Pakistani communities and larger than the Caribbean and African populations (ONS 2003).\u00a0 Findings from the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities indicate that just over half of Caribbean men had white partners, and a third of Caribbean women had white partners. 39% of Caribbean children have one white parent, mostly a black father and a white mother (Modood, Berthoud et al. 1997: 30f.).\u00a0 The statistics point to a significant phenomenon, which has gone unrecognised&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethnopolitics.org\/ethnopolitics\/archive\/volume_II\/issue_3-4\/mansaray.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alchemy of Mixed Race &#8211; Review Essay The Global Review of Ethnopolitics Vol. 2, no. 3-4 March\/June 2003 pages 100-106 Ayo Mansaray University of Middlesex, UK Raiding the Gene Pool: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Jill Olumide Pluto Press, 2001 pp. 224 (including: foreword, notes, bibliography, index, appendix) Rethinking \u201cMixed Race\u201d Parker &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,10],"tags":[1349,1191,541,1348],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-uk","tag-ayo-mansaray","tag-gillian-olumide","tag-jill-olumide","tag-the-global-review-of-ethnopolitics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","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=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}