Mixedness and Mixing: Day 2, Interaction (5 September 2007)

This is a printable version of the Mixedness & Mixing website page Topics for Day 2

Day 2: Interaction

On day two we discussed the nature and characteristics of mixed relationships and families, and how members of the mixed-race population relate to, and interact with, people from other ethnic groups.

Read our
panel's opinions
on these papers

Understanding inter-ethnic relationships

Mixed families - Assumptions and new Approaches, Chamion Caballero
Equality and mixed couples: the final frontier, Ashley Chisholm
Interethnic marriage - love is not enough, Bina Radia-Bond

Mixed relationships - not just a Black and White issue

Thai-British Families: Towards a deeper understanding of 'mixedness', Jessica Mai Sims
The elephant in the room, Tanya Datta
Mixed Race and Mixed Families in Britain: The Case of Growing up in a Mixed Faith Family, Dr Elisabeth Arweck

FORUM: Read the
discussions
of these themes

How do people who are mixed-race relate with those that aren't?

On being mixed race, Sir Keith Ajegbo
Mixed Race Britain - Through My Eyes, Rory Campbell
First person: Amanda Hussain
Black and White doesn't do the trick, Toby Laurent Belson
Identity as relationship, Bob Macintosh
Not Black enough, Lin Kin

See abstracts for all these papers

Interaction

Meaningful interaction is an important part of an integrated society. Finding effective ways to overcome tendencies towards separation and polarisation between different groups is not a simple matter, and there is a need for creative thinking.

Much depends on finding a commitment to integration within communities, and work in the education and sport sectors, and with young people, is particularly important.