Britain has the highest levels of mixed race relationships in the developed world. Nearly half of all Carribean children in this country have one white parent. In many areas there are more mixed race children in care than any other group. Issues of race lie at the heart of "New Britain" and in this title the author gives an analysis of mixed race issues, supplying a history before going on to analyze dilemmas such as guilt, and the absence of social policy. Her book aims to reflect the complex lives of this growing and increasingly visable population.
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The Browning of Britain,
By MopedLad (los angeles) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons (Paperback)
I am delighted to see that this book has finally made it Stateside.This book is a mixed bag of positives that create much optimism, and of negatives that anger and depress. Things to be glad about are the individuals quoted in the books who have forged a happy, comfortable mixed-race identity; this in spite of the agendas of the British social worker community which still militantly denies that there are social and identity issues affecting mixed race children that differ from black children. One white social worker interviewed for the books states this position thus: 'I will not have you using terms like "mixed-race." In this department, the children are black if they are not white. That is all there is to say about their identity. If a white child says he is not white, would you correct him? So if a half-African child says he is not black, I just correct him.' Small wonder that many mixed race people who have been unfortunate enough to become wards of the State in Britain show an alarmingly high rate of social problems in adulthood. Nonetheless stable families abound in the book, and the adult children interviewed are largely confident, and happy. Britain has the highest rate of interracial marriage in the world, and consequently this trend is changing that nation's profile in an abundance of areas. Alibhai-Brown does a generally excellent job of expounding upon her subject matter. It is well researched, and intelligently presented. She takes some pot-shots at Britain's Conservative Party for the crass xenophobia exhibited by a handful of the old guard. She is less forthright in attacking the extreme left-wing ideologies that underpin the rabid, intractable ethos of many of Britain's social workers. She also misses noting the role that the UK's craddle to grave welfare state contibutes to fatherless children. On the whole it's mostly good news for Britain's burgeoning mixed race population, though clearly some other areas need review and change.
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