{"id":39655,"date":"2015-01-23T21:24:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39655"},"modified":"2015-03-01T03:21:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T03:21:25","slug":"social-representations-of-mixed-race-in-early-twenty-first-century-britain-content-limitations-and-counter-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39655","title":{"rendered":"Social representations of \u2018mixed-race\u2019 in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2014.992924\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Social representations of \u2018mixed-race\u2019 in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/rers20\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: 2015-01-23<br \/>\n19 pages<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2014.992924\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2014.992924<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/staff\/associates\/aspinall.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Peter J. Aspinall<\/strong><\/a>, Emeritus Reader in Public Health<br \/>\nCentre for Health Services Studies (CHSS)<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the last two decades, lay and professional interest in Britain&#8217;s \u2018mixed-race\u2019 population has markedly increased, following dramatic growth in mixing and mixedness. As is often the case with new phenomena, agencies in the sphere of popular culture have stepped in to offer the wider public interpretative representations of this \u2018new\u2019 group. Drawing on challenging concepts, like demographic growth rates and projections, the family \u2018norm\u2019, the ostensible benefits of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/heterozygosity\" target=\"_blank\">heterozygosity<\/a>, and the drawbacks of claimed \u2018in-betweenness\u2019, they have offered us a picture of the \u2018mixed-race\u2019 population that is sometimes at variance with lived experiences or the harder image of statistical reality. Social representation theory is used to explore the limitations of these representations and to offer a number of counter-narratives that are grounded in the evidence base.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/01419870.2014.992924\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social representations of \u2018mixed-race\u2019 in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2015-01-23 19 pages DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2014.992924 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Public Health Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent, United Kingdom Over the last two decades, lay and professional interest in Britain&#8217;s \u2018mixed-race\u2019 population [&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":[461,61,1877],"class_list":["post-39655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-peter-aspinall","tag-peter-j-aspinall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39655","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=39655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}