{"id":40978,"date":"2015-04-27T19:14:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40978"},"modified":"2015-04-27T19:14:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:14:57","slug":"bigots-beware-you-have-fewer-places-to-hide-in-mixed-heritage-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40978","title":{"rendered":"Bigots beware \u2013 you have fewer places to hide in mixed-heritage Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2015\/apr\/26\/mixed-heritage-britain-casual-racism-less-acceptable-than-ever\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Bigots beware \u2013 you have fewer places to hide in mixed-heritage Britain<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-26<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hugh_muir\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hugh Muir<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The makeup of Britain is changing. Anyone who thinks they can get away with casual racism is making a big mistake<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Runnymede Trust\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/uploads\/RaceandElectionsFINAL_interactive.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report on Race and Elections<\/a> tells us that one of the groups least likely to register to vote is those of mixed heritage. They are relatively young; they move around \u2013 not least to study; and of all the things they have to do, registering to vote isn\u2019t a massive priority. Undoubtedly, that will change.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the growing number of mixed-heritage Brits \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/britain\/21595908-rapid-rise-mixed-race-britain-changing-neighbourhoodsand-perplexing\" target=\"_blank\">1.2 million now, the biggest single increase of any group in the 2011 census<\/a> \u2013 will give rise to all sorts of recalculations. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigel_Farage\" target=\"_blank\">Nigel Farage<\/a> might reconsider his terminology. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2015\/apr\/21\/nigel-farage-says-image-of-half-black-spokesman-shows-manifestos-diversity\" target=\"_blank\">Last week, he boasted of a member who was \u201chalf-black\u201d<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2015\/apr\/26\/mixed-heritage-britain-casual-racism-less-acceptable-than-ever\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigots beware \u2013 you have fewer places to hide in mixed-heritage Britain The Guardian 2015-04-26 Hugh Muir The makeup of Britain is changing. Anyone who thinks they can get away with casual racism is making a big mistake The Runnymede Trust\u2019s report on Race and Elections tells us that one of the groups least likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,10],"tags":[2102,542,2103],"class_list":["post-40978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-uk","tag-hugh-muir","tag-runnymede-trust","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40978","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=40978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}