{"id":723,"date":"2009-09-17T03:31:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T03:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=723"},"modified":"2015-06-10T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:37:07","slug":"mixed-race-in-britain-a-survey-of-the-preferences-of-mixed-race-people-for-terminology-and-classifications-interim-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pih.org.uk\/features\/mixedraceinbritain_report2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/CHSS\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS)<\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">University of Kent at Canterbury<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nJuly 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/CHSS\/about\/staff\/aspinall.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Aspinall<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Research Fellow<br \/>\nCentre for Health Services Studies (CHSS)<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/song.html\" target=\"_blank\">Miri Song<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/CHSS\/about\/staff\/hashem.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ferhana Hashem<\/a><\/strong>, Research Fellow<br \/>\nCentre for Health Services Studies (CHSS)<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;This research project into the preferences for terminology and classifications was initiated in 2004 and put into the field in summer 2005. \u00a0Its main purposes were: (i) to help inform terminology and classifications for ethnic group for the upcoming 2011 Census and (ii) to serve as a pilot study for an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ESRC\" target=\"_blank\">ESRC<\/a> application: \u2018The ethnic options of mixed race people in Britain\u2019 (which also had a focus on official terminology and classifications). \u00a0This application was funded by ESRC and the project began on 1st March 2006.\u00a0 A small dataset on official terminology and classifications is also accruing via this route&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;On issues of terminology, <strong>the salient general term of choice amongst respondents was \u2018mixed race\u2019.<\/strong>\u00a0 The only other terms that attracted significant support were \u2018mixed heritage\u2019 and \u2018mixed parentage\u2019. Very few preferred \u2018dual heritage\u2019. \u00a0Respondents identified eleven different terms as offensive, most frequently \u2018dual heritage\u2019, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">half-caste<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018mixed origins\u2019.\u00a0 The reasons for the dislike of \u2018dual heritage\u2019 focussed mainly on its limitation to two groups.\u00a0 <strong>\u2018Half-caste\u2019 was regarded as pejorative by several respondents, on the ground of partial recognition &amp; historical connotations.<\/strong> \u00a0The largest number of respondents felt that terms like \u2018mixed race\u2019 and \u2018mixed parentage\u2019 should refer to \u2018people who are mixes of white and any minority racial\/ethnic group\u2019.\u00a0 Significant numbers also felt that the terms should refer to people who are mixes of minority racial\/ethnic groups, people who are mixes of white and black groups only, and people of disparate ethnic origins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pih.org.uk\/features\/mixedraceinbritain_report2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report) Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent at Canterbury July 2006 Peter Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,125,8,14,26,10],"tags":[59,61],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-politics","category-uk","tag-half-caste","tag-peter-aspinall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}