{"id":53,"date":"2009-06-14T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=53"},"modified":"2013-05-10T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:46:41","slug":"53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Invisible&#8217; history of mixed race Britain becomes the subject of a major study"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;The &#8216;mixed&#8217; population is now the fastest growing ethnic group in Britain. While the substantial increase in the size of this group is a recent phenomenon, population mixing has happened throughout the 20th century and earlier.<strong> By the 1920s there were settled mixed race populations in a number of British seaports, including Liverpool and Cardiff, brought about in part by visiting African and Asian seamen, and significant communities in other cities including London and Manchester.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>University of Kent, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/stories\/invisiblehistoryofmixedracebritainbecomesthesubjectofamajoostudy\/2008\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Invisible&#8217; history of mixed race Britain becomes the subject of a major study<\/a>\u201d, News Release, (May 15, 2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;The &#8216;mixed&#8217; population is now the fastest growing ethnic group in Britain. While the substantial increase in the size of this group is a recent phenomenon, population mixing has happened throughout the 20th century and earlier. By the 1920s there were settled mixed race populations in a number of British seaports, including Liverpool and Cardiff, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[268,207],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-cardiff","tag-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}