Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century

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This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and influential public debate on the meanings and implications of intimately crossing racial boundaries.

Based on research that formed the foundations of the British television series Mixed Britannia, the authors draw on a range of firsthand accounts and archival material to compare ‘official’ accounts of racial mixing and mixedness with those told by mixed race people, couples and families themselves.

Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century shows that alongside the more familiarly recognised experiences of social bigotry and racial prejudice there can also be glimpsed constant threads of tolerance, acceptance, inclusion and ‘ordinariness’. It presents a more complex and multifaceted history of mixed race Britain than is typically assumed, one that adds to the growing picture of the longstanding diversity and difference that is, and always has been, an ordinary and everyday feature of British life. 

Presents a comprehensive history of racial mixing in Britain during the twentieth century

Contrasts ‘ordinary’ voices sourced from archival material from across the twentieth century with official media and government accounts of racial mixing in Britain

Formed the foundations of the popular BBC Two television series Mixed Brittannia that explored the history of Britain's mixed-race community     

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Chamion Caballero

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“In Mixed Race Britain in the Twentieth Century, Chamion Caballero and Peter J. Aspinall critically investigate newly discovered archives, photographs, first-hand lived experiences and existing academic literature to present an unprecedentedly comprehensive history of racial mixing in Britain. … Overall, the book is an invaluable contribution to the study of the mixed race population in the British context.” (Ivana Chen, LSE Review of Books, July 24, 2019)
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“Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century is a fine example of incisive scholarship underpinned by detailed critical analysis of transformations in discourses of mixed race. Its examination of hidden or forgotten histories of mixed race avoids simplistic generalisations about either mixed race people or white British society. It brings the voices of ordinary people to public attention and, in doing so, situates them in history and illuminates the complex ways in which competing discourses are entangled in old and new racial projects. Its refusal to be drawn into telling a singular story--of a move from denigration to celebration--is intellectually exciting. This book is a must read for those in critical mixed-race studies and anyone interested in racialisation, gender, family life and social reproduction and change. There is no doubt that it will become a much-cited classic.”(Ann Phoenix, UCL Institute of Education, UK, and Helsinki University Collegium for Advanced Studies,Finland)

“Here at last is a book we have long needed: a scrupulously researched and highly readable account of twentieth century mixed-race Britain. Its range is extensive: charting the history of British racism and the slow shifts in attitudes towards and cultural representations of racial mixing, it also examines how interracial relationships have long been a part of wider communities and how ‘mixed race’ has finally become a positive identity. This informative, thoughtful and wise book is a landmark text.” (Lucy Bland, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK)

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