{"id":61536,"date":"2021-09-20T15:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61536"},"modified":"2021-09-20T16:53:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:53:29","slug":"biracial-britain-a-different-way-of-looking-at-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61536","title":{"rendered":"Biracial Britain: A Different Way of Looking at Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biracial Britain: A Different Way of Looking at Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Constable<\/a>
\n2021-01-28
\n352 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781472133458
\nEbook ISBN: 9781472133434
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781472133441<\/p>\n

Remi Adekoya<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Lecturer of Politics
\nUniversity of York<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Mixed-race is the fastest-growing minority group in Britain<\/a>. By the end of the century roughly one in three of the population will be mixed-race, with this figure rising to 75 per cent by 2150. Mixed-race is, quite literally, the future.<\/p>\n

Paradoxically, however, this unprecedented interracial mixing is happening in a world that is becoming more and more racially polarized. Race continues to be discussed in a binary fashion: black or white, we and they, us and them. Mixed-race is not treated as a unique identity, but rather as an offshoot of other more familiar identities \u2013 remnants of the twentieth century \u2018one-drop\u2019 rule<\/a> (\u2018if you\u2019re not white, you\u2019re black\u2019) alarmingly prevail. Therefore, where does a mixed-race person fit? Stuck in the middle of these conflicts are individuals trying to survive and thrive. It is high time we developed a new understanding of mixed-race identity better suited to our century.<\/p>\n

Remi Adekoya (the son of a Nigerian father and a Polish mother, now living in Britain) has come to the conclusion that while academic theories can tell us a lot about how identities are socially constructed, they are woeful at explaining how identities are felt. He has spoken to mixed-race Britons of all ages and racial configurations to present a thoughtful and nuanced picture of what it truly means to be mixed-race in Britain today.<\/p>\n

A valuable new addition to discussions on race, Biracial Britain<\/em> is a search for identity, a story about life that makes sense to us. An identity is a story. These are our stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biracial Britain: A Different Way of Looking at Race Constable 2021-01-28 352 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781472133458 Ebook ISBN: 9781472133434 Paperback ISBN: 9781472133441 Remi Adekoya, Associate Lecturer of Politics University of York Mixed-race is the fastest-growing minority group in Britain. By the end of the century roughly one in three of the population will be mixed-race, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,17,26,10],"tags":[31918,31919],"class_list":["post-61536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-uk","tag-constable","tag-remi-adekoya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61536","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=61536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61545,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61536\/revisions\/61545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}