{"id":36003,"date":"2014-03-08T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T06:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36003"},"modified":"2014-11-09T17:38:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:38:31","slug":"being-mixed-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36003","title":{"rendered":"Being Mixed Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wow.southbankcentre.co.uk\/event\/being-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Being Mixed Race<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wow.southbankcentre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women of the World Festival 2014<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wow.southbankcentre.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Southbank Centre<\/a><br \/>\nBelvedere Road, London<br \/>\nBlue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall<br \/>\nSaturday, 2014-03-08, 13:30-15:00Z<\/p>\n<p>What is being \u2018mixed race\u2019? Is there such a thing as a mixed-race identity? In the 2011 census, over a million people in the UK ticked the \u2018mixed race\u2019 box\u2014double the number who did so in 2001 when the box was first introduced. This multi-generational panel continues one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=29328\" target=\"_blank\">WOW 2013\u2019s most moving and insightful conversations<\/a>. Is the term mixed race useful to anyone but statisticians? Can today\u2019s increasingly fluid racial identities ever really be squeezed into a one-size- fits-all box? Speakers include Irish Nigerian visual sociologist <a href=\"http:\/\/thediasporadiva.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Dabiri<\/a>, artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoebecollingsjames.com\" target=\"_blank\">Phoebe Collings-James<\/a> and teacher, writer and feminist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/lola-okolosie\" target=\"_blank\">Lola Okolosie<\/a>. The session includes a workshop led by Emma Dabiri and we hear from consultant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kneeshawconsulting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Kneeshaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/wow.southbankcentre.co.uk\/event\/being-mixed-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Mixed Race Women of the World Festival 2014 Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, London Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall Saturday, 2014-03-08, 13:30-15:00Z What is being \u2018mixed race\u2019? Is there such a thing as a mixed-race identity? In the 2011 census, over a million people in the UK ticked the \u2018mixed race\u2019 box\u2014double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,13,8,394,10],"tags":[13842,17066,17067,17068,13841],"class_list":["post-36003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-emma-dabiri","tag-lola-okolosie","tag-phoebe-collings-james","tag-sally-kneeshaw","tag-women-of-the-world-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36003","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=36003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}