{"id":7985,"date":"2010-07-13T05:49:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T05:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7985"},"modified":"2010-07-13T05:49:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T05:49:57","slug":"mixed-race-britain-where-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7985","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race Britain: Where Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/events-conferences\/econferences\/arts-and-mixedness\/mixed-race-britain-where-next.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Britain: Where Next?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\" target=\"_blank\">Runnymede Trust<br \/>\n<\/a>2010-07-09<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibhai-brown.com\/about.php\" target=\"_blank\">Yasmin Alibhai-Brown<\/a><\/strong>, Independent Journalist<\/p>\n<p>My two books on mixed race Britons, <em>Colour of Love<\/em> (1992) and <em>Mixed Feelings<\/em> (2001) were among the first non-academic explorations of racial mixing in Britain. In the nine years between the two publications, awareness had grown of the fast rising number of mixed heritage families in Britain (some going back three generations) but recognition of multiple identities was yet to come. Public policies, community politics and, arguably, mixed race people and couples themselves, still worked within established mono-racial categories. Black activists forcefully argued that mixed raced people could only be black because that is how society saw them. They, in fact, appropriated the old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one drop rule<\/a> applied during the days of slavery. It wasn\u2019t right in the bad old days and certainly made no sense in the late 20th century. Now that mixed race Britons are set to overtake most other \u2018ethnic minority\u2019 groups, the hope must be that old classifications and disagreements will give way to the newer, more pertinent, voices of those who are themselves biracial or even tri-racial and we will find fresh language, modernised concepts and better understanding of human desire and multifarious identities. This hasn\u2019t happened yet. We are in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lacuna_(linguistics)\" target=\"_blank\">lacuna<\/a> at present- in the UK and the US too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnymedetrust.org\/events-conferences\/econferences\/arts-and-mixedness\/mixed-race-britain-where-next.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Race Britain: Where Next? Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent Journalist My two books on mixed race Britons, Colour of Love (1992) and Mixed Feelings (2001) were among the first non-academic explorations of racial mixing in Britain. In the nine years between the two publications, awareness had grown of the fast rising number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,6,26,394,10],"tags":[542,804],"class_list":["post-7985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-runnymede-trust","tag-yasmin-alibhai-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985","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=7985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}