{"id":43349,"date":"2015-10-20T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43349"},"modified":"2015-10-21T14:28:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:28:29","slug":"diversity-and-cohesion-in-britains-most-mixed-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43349","title":{"rendered":"Diversity and cohesion in Britain\u2019s most mixed community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/71d04768-63af-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Diversity and cohesion in Britain\u2019s most mixed community<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnpmcdermott\" target=\"_blank\">John McDermott<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the Barking Road Community Centre in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plaistow,_Bromley\" target=\"_blank\">Plaistow<\/a>, dancers sway and twirl to calypso beats. If the music hints at the centre\u2019s past as an Afro-Caribbean club, the mix of elderly boppers suggest how the composition of this pocket of east <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a> is changing. As well as women with Nigerian and Jamaican heritage, there are those with roots in India, Pakistan, Colombia, Poland and the Philippines. They show why Plaistow is the clearest example of what researchers describe as London\u2019s \u201csuper-diversity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf London is the most diverse city in the world, and Plaistow is the most diverse part of the city, Plaistow might be the most diverse place in the world,\u201d says Forhad Hussain, a local councillor. When Hussain came to the area in 1983 with his Bangladeshi-born parents, this part of the city was mostly white and working-class, home to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stevedore\" target=\"_blank\">dockers<\/a> and their families who had stayed put as Plaistow was rebuilt after the devastation wrought by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Blitz\" target=\"_blank\">Blitz<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/71d04768-63af-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity and cohesion in Britain\u2019s most mixed community Financial Times 2015-10-14 John McDermott At the Barking Road Community Centre in Plaistow, dancers sway and twirl to calypso beats. If the music hints at the centre\u2019s past as an Afro-Caribbean club, the mix of elderly boppers suggest how the composition of this pocket of east London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,10],"tags":[81,21475,21477,850,21476],"class_list":["post-43349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-england","tag-financial-times","tag-john-mcdermott","tag-london","tag-plaistow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43349","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=43349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43368,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43349\/revisions\/43368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}