{"id":60683,"date":"2021-04-03T15:38:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60683"},"modified":"2021-07-15T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:47:22","slug":"mixed-other-explorations-of-multiraciality-in-modern-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60683","title":{"rendered":"Mixed\/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orionbooks.co.uk\/titles\/natalie-morris\/mixedother\/9781409197164\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mixed\/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrapezeBooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trapeze<\/a><br \/>\n2021-04-15<br \/>\n240 pages<br \/>\neBook ISBN-13: 978140919716<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-13: 9781409197140<br \/>\nAudiobook ISBN-13: 9781409197225<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nmozz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Natalie Morris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orionbooks.co.uk\/titles\/natalie-morris\/mixedother\/9781409197164\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orionbooks.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/hbg-title-9781409197164-25.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>An exploration of what it means to be mixed race in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK<\/a> today.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How does it feel when your heritage isn\u2019t listed as an option on an identification form?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is it like to grow up as the only person in your family who looks like you?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Where do you belong if you are simultaneously seen as being \u2018too much\u2019 of one race and \u2018not enough\u2019 of another to fit neatly into society\u2019s expectations?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The mixed population is the fastest-growing group in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.K.<\/a> today, but the mainstream conversation around mixedness is stilted, repetitive and often problematic. At a time when ethnically ambiguous models fill our Instagram feeds and our high street shop windows, and when children of interracial relationships are lauded as heralding in the dawn of a post-racial utopia, journalist Natalie Morris takes a deep dive into what it really means to be mixed in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Blackfishing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blackfishing<\/a> to the fetishisation of mixed babies; from the complexities of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=code%20switching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">code-switching<\/a> to navigating the world of work and dating, Natalie explores the ways in which all of these issues uniquely impact those of mixed heritage. Drawing from a wealth of research, interviews and her own personal experiences, in <em>Mixed\/Othe<\/em>r, Natalie\u2019s aims to dismantle the stereotypes that have plagued mixed people for generations and to amplify the voices of mixed Britons today, shining a light on the struggles and the joys that come with being mixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exploration of what it means to be mixed race in the UK today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,125,8,17,6462,394,10],"tags":[27733,31381],"class_list":["post-60683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-natalie-morris","tag-trapeze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683","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=60683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61083,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683\/revisions\/61083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}