{"id":709,"date":"2009-09-16T18:24:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T18:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=709"},"modified":"2019-03-03T02:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T02:22:07","slug":"fletcher-report-the-of-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Fletcher Report, 1930 (The)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The<\/em> <em>Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports<\/em> or simply, <em>The<\/em> <em>Fletcher Report<\/em> of 1930 was a report sponsored by the Liverpool [England]\u00a0Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children in December, 1927.\u00a0 The report, released\u00a0on 1930-06-16, was written by Muriel E. Fletcher a 1920 graduate of the University of Liverpool\u2019s School of Social Science.\u00a0 She was at that time employed as a probation worker and given the task to investigate the socioeconomic plight of \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">half-castes<\/a>\u2019.\u00a0 The social research played particular attention to the family structure of the [so-called] \u201chalf-caste\u201d population in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a><sup>1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Fletcher Report <\/em>was written in response to the social tension created by the increased population of black (African) seamen who, via colonization\u2014were deemed British citizens\u2014and their \u201chalf-caste\u201d (\u2018mixed-race\u2019) children of their unions with white (English) women.\u00a0 This tension culminated with the\u00a0Liverpool\u00a0anti-Black riots of 1919.\u00a0 \u00a0The report was based on a mere fraction the authors&#8217; purported sample size and had little, if any, concern for the\u00a0actual well-being of\u00a0 \u2018mixed-race\u2019 children and their families. The report was imbued with the racist\u00a0\u201chybrid degeneracy\u201d\u00a0pseudoscience of the day.\u00a0\u00a0Besides the fact that the <em>Fletcher\u00a0Report<\/em> stigmatized \u2018mixed race\u2019 individuals for decades, the report owns another ignominious spot in race relations\u00a0in\u00a0that it embedded the pejorative term &#8220;half-caste&#8221; into the British lexicon.<\/p>\n<p>The report is available at the Library of the University of Liverpool (Reference Number: D7\/5\/5\/5).\u00a0 See: <a href=\"http:\/\/sca.lib.liv.ac.uk\/ead\/html\/gb141unirelated-p4.shtml#uni.10.09.01.05.05.02\">http:\/\/sca.lib.liv.ac.uk\/ead\/html\/gb141unirelated-p4.shtml#uni.10.09.01.05.05.02<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Mark Christian,\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fletcher Report 1930: A Historical Case Study of Contested Black Mixed Heritage Britishness<\/a>,\u201d <em>Journal of Historical Sociology<\/em>, Volume 21 Issue 2-3, (2008):\u00a0 213 \u2013 241.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports or simply, The Fletcher Report of 1930 was a report sponsored by the Liverpool [England]\u00a0Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children in December, 1927.\u00a0 The report, released\u00a0on 1930-06-16, was written by Muriel E. 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